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nik282000

I went from 2k hits a day to 15k in the past week.

Point a domain at your IP, use letsencrypt, post your domain on Reddit, github, x, etc. The bots will find you.

I have a domain with an SSL cert. https://solarsi.ca/ I tried posting on /r/sysadmin asking for help testing a bot blocker, but a moderator quickly deleted the post, claiming it was marketing/promoting.

Thanks for the github suggestion; I'll add a repo for the bot blocker Apache config, and include the above server URL that I'm using to test the blocker.

How letsencrypt "helps"?

Certificate Transparency logs

Whenever a new certificate is issued the bots seem to all monitor that and immediately start scanning the new domain.

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