Blocking Bad Bots With AbuseIPD Blacklist

Sean Conner at The Boston Diaries wrote about trying to block annoying and/or malicious bots from crawling his website. It is a good read. Beginning in late 2024, I started noticing The New Leaf Journal going down periodically. The server logs suggested that it was being overrun by bots and crawlers. I tried various methods to ensure that NLJ would be up all the time, including fiddling with Apache configs and my .htaccess file. I stumbled upon the "solution" (for now, at least) in late […]

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