The article discusses the prevalence of bot requests on public-facing web servers, focusing on their attempts to access non-existent pages. These requests, although mostly harmless, can consume server resources significantly. To counteract this, the article suggests using HAProxy to block these requests while allowing legitimate search engine crawlers. It emphasizes setting up a local test environment and using Docker to implement HAProxy along with Apache to replicate and manage 404 error responses efficiently.
Your server's log files are being flooded with 404 hits from bots probing non-existent pages. By utilizing HAProxy, you can effectively manage these requests.
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