@grumpyoldtechie@hostux.social
Post #2413886
2026-04-27 13:16 UTC
@pkirn@mastodon.social Your'e unfortunately playing wack-a-mole whatever you do. I don't have links handy right now but nginx bad bot blocker has served me well. Have a look which countries the bots come from and block or challenge those. Block cloud service Ip ranges, Google cloud and Huawei cloud are the biggest offenders. I use Cloudflare and nginx on FreeBSD so I can give more info on those if you want. I reduced 200k hits a day to a sane 1k hits on my niche family site
Replies (4)
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@pkirn@mastodon.social 2026-04-27 13:16
@grumpyoldtechie@hostux.social yep, that's kind of where I arrived at!
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@pkirn@mastodon.social 2026-04-27 13:17
@grumpyoldtechie@hostux.social and some extra tips in there, too -- I mean ironically niche or not you're exposed to the same elements!
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@grumpyoldtechie@hostux.social 2026-04-27 13:19
@pkirn@mastodon.social nginx ultimate bad bot blocker https://github.com/mitchellkrogza
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@dec23k@mastodon.ie 2026-04-27 14:47
@grumpyoldtechie@hostux.social @pkirn@mastodon.social Most of the abusive traffic I see is from the MSFT Azure IP ranges. Which I am happy to block, even though some of them take up a lot of lines as CIDR.