Bots Love Wasting Your Server’s Resources—Here’s How to Fight Back
SMRTR summary
HAProxy can block malicious bots by rate-limiting IP addresses that generate excessive 404 errors, banning those making more than 5 hits on non-existent pages per minute, while allowing legitimate crawlers and static resource requests.
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