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How to Build a Powerful Reverse Proxy Firewall for Blocking the Evil Web-Scraping Robot Hordes from Hell (cheapskatesguide.org)
submitted 9 months ago by kjo@discuss.tchncs.de to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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My goals for this firewall were mostly to provide better robot blocking and perhaps some more powerful DDoS protection than my Raspberry Pi 3 web server is capable of delivering. I still have to do some testing before I will know if my new firewall actually provides either of those, but at least I now have the additional ability to run multiple physical web servers on my LAN. Exploring that should be fun, and fun is a very important component of running a home web server.

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[–] BaroqueInMind@piefed.social 33 points 9 months ago (1 children)

This page isn't loading for me.

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 82 points 9 months ago (1 children)

found the bot

[–] BaroqueInMind@piefed.social 21 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I'm getting a 404 error, using Cloudflare DNS, who ironically has the best commercial clanker protection in the world, otherwise half the world's internet wouldn't use them

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 17 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Bot

[–] BaroqueInMind@piefed.social 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Not a bot. Both of you can go fuck yourselves with an ENTIRE can of bear mace.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 6 points 9 months ago

Sounds like something a bot would say

[–] AtariDump@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Using a VPN that you forgot is on?

[–] BaroqueInMind@piefed.social 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yep. Why do you ask?

[–] AtariDump@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Because the VPN might be the reason you’re being blocked from the page.

[–] BaroqueInMind@piefed.social 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Why would a post on a .org domain blog site about blocking AI bots be relevant to my VPN?

[–] uranibaba@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

Since multiple people will be using the same IP when using a VPN. If one person is a bad actor and causes the IP to be blacklisted, it will affect you too.

[–] AtariDump@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Uranibab said.

Try turning off your VPN.

[–] Jason2357@lemmy.ca -2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Cloudflare is a protection racket. They cover so many websites because it’s easier to pay the mafia.

[–] BaroqueInMind@piefed.social 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Im not a cloudflare dick rider, so if you have a suggestion for a better service with commensurate features, im all ears.

[–] sirboozebum@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

I thought there was a self-hosted service that was an alternative to cloudflare tunnels?