Second Anubis, just finished by setup yesterday i have it of a oracle cloud frre tier vps, which depending on the domain routes the traffic to services hosted on the vps itself or to my server ar home. Relatively easy to setup, blocks most requests with very few false positives (one of which for example it would aggressively challenge by thunderbird trying to reach my baikal instance). I set a bit more aggresive rules than default (i also block googlebot and bingbot, since i received a bit more requests than I’d like). In like 10 hours it straight up denied about 5000 requests from the ai-catchall ruleset (mostly amazonbot) and challenged about 10000, mostly from a block of IPs in singapore, some of the hosts having the user agent of a Macintosh with PowerPC. They all sure love to explore the public repos on my git server.
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savvywolf@pawb.social 2 months ago
I’ve seen people suggesting and using Anubis, haven’t used it myself though.
RedBauble@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
VeganCheesecake@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
You probably don’t need me to tell you, but keep good backups. Friend of mine recently had his account nuked without any reason given, and without the possibility of recourse.
a mail from Oracle, informing about the immediate termination of service, and deletion of all data
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
as I heard that’s pretty common at oracle, but it’s good to spread the word
RedBauble@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
That’s too bad. Luckily i keep just a couple of docker compose stacks there. But I should starr backing them up
Typewar@infosec.pub 2 months ago
I have a dumb question… what is preventing the crawlers from just eating the shit and just burn though the energy to get through?
savvywolf@pawb.social 2 months ago
It’ll still slow them down and reduce load on your server. I also think many of these crawlers focus on volume; time spent computing the hash is time not spent crawling someone else’s site.
FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
I’ve had trouble with it using a vpn and privacy browsers. It often blocks me until I use a default browser.
Courantdair@jlai.lu 2 months ago
I was going to recommend that, very easy to setup
DrunkAnRoot@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
i tried Anubis and it works great the only issue is it wont support multiple subdomains