what's your backend infrastructure? cloudflare is industry standard, but there a ton of caching options.... we move as much static content as possible over to s3 and serve from there where i guess we just largely forget or are able to ignore IO details
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Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2026 2:47 PM
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Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Dealing with bot traffic - what tools/services are you using?
On Apr 30, 2026, at 2:35 PM, Lucky, Shannon <shannon.lucky_at_usask.ca> wrote:
> ...Specifically I am wondering who is using services like Cloudflare or implementing OS solutions like Anubis, or are you using something else?...
I deal with this problem at the network interface level. More specifically, my server's have a firewall in front of them. Your's almost definitely does too. I then identify undesirable IP addresses coming into my server and configure the firewall to disallow them up front. They never get into my network in first place. Even more specifically, I use the following command from the server's terminal:
firewall-cmd --direct --add-rule ipv4 filter INPUT_direct 0 -s 180.76.15.6 -j DROP
Your specific implementation may differ, but the principle is the same.
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