How to Disable SSH Rate Limit for Specific IP Address

In your case, you can whitelist a specific IP address to bypass the rate-limiting rule for SSH connections. To do this, you’ll need to modify the UFW rules. Here’s how:

1. First, insert a rule that allows all SSH traffic from a specific IP address:

sudo ufw insert 1 allow from your_IP to any port 22 proto tcp

Replace your_IP with the IP address you want to whitelist.

2. Then, you can remove or disable the rate-limiting rule for SSH in UFW:

sudo ufw status numbered

Find the number of the rule that contains “LIMIT” and “22/tcp”, then delete that rule using:

sudo ufw delete [RULE_NUMBER]

Disabling the rate-limiting completely for SSH might expose your server to brute-force attacks. I recommend only whitelisting the IP addresses you require for your deployment scripts and keeping rate-limiting enabled for other connections.

For more information, you can check out the DigitalOcean Firewall Configuration Tutorial.

Hope that this helps!