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   Hanno Rein (hannorein@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jul-2026 15:29:49 JST Hanno Rein

   I need some help: I'm self-hosting the documentation to a scientific software package https://rebound.hanno-rein.de. This is for a small audience and it's a small, static website. Yet, crawlers have recently been hammering my server with stupid requests that make it very slow for normal users. The requests come from residential/VPN IP ranges and usually only include one request per IP. I want to block them, or slow them down. But I don't know how. 1/N

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jul-2026 15:29:48 JST Rich Felker

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     @hannorein Unfortunately Apache is probably the problem.

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     Hanno Rein (hannorein@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jul-2026 15:29:49 JST Hanno Rein

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     I'm using Apache on the server side. And I'd like to change as little as possible. Most importantly I don't want to rely on any third party service like cloudfare to filter or serve requests. I also don't want to add any stupid captchas. I'd welcome any suggestions. Again, the key is to change as little as possible. 2/2