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Is it possible to rate limit the whole site (How quickly an IP/session can navigate to another page) since bots don't always listen to the rules? How would I go about that?

Just block all those nasty bots. A good staring point would be this list for your '.htaccess'.

Joe1234 wrote: ↑

Mon Jul 08, 2024 7:00 pm

Is it possible to rate limit the whole site (How quickly an IP/session can navigate to another page) since bots don't always listen to the rules? How would I go about that?

You could use Cloudflare?

JNeuhoff wrote: ↑

Mon Jul 08, 2024 7:45 pm

Just block all those nasty bots. A good staring point would be this list for your '.htaccess'.

Which would only block those bots which actually identify themselves as such, of which 90% will never visit you site, and are therefor the least of your bot concerns. Mind, htaccess, if enabled, will be read on every request, uncached.

It seems putting together a rate limiter wasn't hard at all.

I try to shy away from using htaccess when I don't absolutely need to, especially due to its recursive nature and how it's read (or at least how I understand it is read), and with how out of control and big it can get...and putting all those agents in it is definitely one way. I used to have a large deny list of them in it, and noticed when I removed them the TTFB speed improved.

Either way, I'm testing it out now to find the best settings to see if I should keep it the way I did it, or code it a different way.

This is another good option:

https://nintechnet.com/ninjafirewall/pro-edition