Post #2676129

2026-04-23 16:21 UTC

@vga256@mastodon.tomodori.net I'm sharing a paid host with a friend. Thanks to relatively low combined popularity, we can get away with a cheap plan, but I really don't want random bots to ruin that

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@vga256@mastodon.tomodori.net 2026-04-23 16:27

@jsstaedtler@mastodon.art ah okay. i imagine that probably limits you from any making any apache/nginx configuration settings changes (e.g. IP blocklists) i'm not familiar with your site generation code - but if you wrote it yourself, i *think* the trick would be to have it 404 when an incorrect tag has been used https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1381123/how-to-create-an-error-404-page-using-php at least then the script can die() instead of yielding output. it's anyone's guess if the crawler will still continue to try generating tags when it has encountered a 404, but i *assume* they're built to avoid 404s

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@feff@comicscamp.club 2026-04-23 16:33

@jsstaedtler@mastodon.art Could ask the host if they've got any bot blocking features on their side that might be possible to use. They've also probably got an interest in making sure bots don't hog resources, especially on shared hosting @vga256@mastodon.tomodori.net

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