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Built This to Stop Bots Across My Sites Turned It Into a SaaS

Built This to Stop Bots Across My Sites Turned It Into a SaaS

via Dev.to WebdevGreg B

Most of the traffic hitting my sites lately hasn’t been human. I was dealing with bots and scanners across multiple servers, and managing blocks on each one separately was getting messy fast. So I built something simple for myself to track and block bad traffic from one place, and use that data across all my sites. This builds a threat list of bad Ips if they have met certain criteria to be labeled as a Bot. This list is a shared threat list that can be used on multiple sites that use the same base js code. It ended up working better than I expected, so I turned it into a small SaaS called BlockABot. Still early, but it’s already cutting down a lot of junk traffic. If you deal with bots, scraping, or odd traffic patterns, I’d be curious what you think. https://blockabot.com

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