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This is pretty slick, but doesn't this just mean the bots hammer your server looping forever? How much processing do you do of those forms for example?
Yes
None
It costs me nothing to have bots spending bandwidth on me because I'm not on a metered connection and electricity is cheap enough that the tiny overhead of processing their requests might amount to a dollar or two per year.
Best is to redirect them to a 1TB file served by hetzner's cache. There's some nginx configs that do this