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I was curious if the htaccess code below can have any negative impact on a website with speed or SEO? What it does is redirect a user to a specific page if they have a particular IP address.

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_HOST} ^58\.97\.142\.79$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_HOST} ^96\.248\.38\.64$
RewriteRule !\.(html)$ http://www\.website\.com/moved\.html [NC,L]
</IfModule>
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Yes, there is a negative impact, but no, it is not something that should concern you, for the most part.

According to this question, the biggest impact is the file-read rather than the rule-processing.

According to this blog post, the impact is approximately 2.3% faster to use an alternative like Apache's httpd.conf modifications over .htaccess. This is not an appreciable difference.

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