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cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/32165111

I realize my options are limited, but what about any robots.txt style steps? Thanks for any suggestions.

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[–] brewery@feddit.uk 4 points 8 months ago

Another option to reduce (but not eliminate) this traffic is a country limit. In cloudflare you can set a manual security rule to do this. There are self hosted options too but harder to setup. It depends what country you are and where your users are based. My website is a business one so I only allow my own country (and if on holiday I might open that country if I need to check it's working, although usually I just use a paid vpn back to my country so no need). You can also block specific countries. So many of my blocked requests are from USA, China, Russia etc