Blocking bots scraping your website

Blocking abusive scrapers, bots and scanners with mod_qos

I’m experiencing more and more bots identifying themselves with a normal user agent, scraping my website. The scraped data is probably used for training Large Language Models. Because I don’t want these AI tools to use (and eventually monetize) my writings, I want to block these scrapers.

I wrote an earlier blog post explaining how to […]

https://blog.frehi.be/2025/08/26/blocking-bots-scraping-your-website/

#Apache #bots #DoS #modQos #security

Apache optimization and mitigating DoS and DDoS attacks

Denial-of-service (DoS) and Distributed Denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks are some of the most common cyberattacks these days. They are fairly easy to execute and the consequences can vary from annoying to very problematic, for example if a crucial web service of a company or public service becomes inaccessible. In the current geopolitical situation DDoS attacks are a very popular method used by […]

https://blog.frehi.be/2025/01/12/apache-optimization-and-mitigating-dos-and-ddos-attacks/

#Apache #DDoS #DoS #firewall #foomuuri #modQos #performance #security

Frehi Debian package repository for Bookworm

#Apache #AppArmor #apt #Bookworm #deb #Debian #modQos #packages #repository

https://blog.frehi.be/2023/12/30/frehi-debian-package-repository-for-bookworm/