How to rate-limit requests with NGINX
Read OriginalThis technical article details the author's practical approach to mitigating excessive traffic from AI scrapers by configuring NGINX's rate-limiting module. It explains the rationale for moving beyond user-agent blocking, provides specific configuration code for burstable limits (5r/s with a 20-request burst), and discusses the benefits for self-hosting without relying on third-party services like Cloudflare.
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