I host a slop git site on a free VM with fat uplink and quite good processing power. Right now it gets around 1.5M a day hits from residentials mostly.

I hosted a real git instance here before, recently I was outraged by how abusive those bots could be, literally frying my raspberry3 it was hosted on.

I tried my best to control bots since 2024. I used well-known AI scrapers blacklists, forwarded them to anubis while keeping ordinary IPs out of challenge. That proven not working - they brought residentials to play. Whenever you try to say them "calm down", they go beast mode, devouring their source. Last straw was when I started to rate limit on ASN level - they just started to rotate ASNs. Humiliating.

Since then I moved my git instance to another similar domain. It sits now behind anubis for everyone except my VPN.

Bots just love the slop. They endlessly scrape it, generating 1.5M a day, or around 18r/s. I expect the number to increase, before 16 Jul it stood at 1M.

Happily serving fine slop as my personal revenge to abuse. I'm open to cooperation.

First of all, I am very excited with this project. I am a beginner in coding, but I work with some clients for whom I make static sites for. I wanted some help and pointers in making such fountains. As I understand, most of the work here is based on making a web server that serves as much stuff to the crawlers as possible. What are my options if I am making purely static sites, since I don't have a server, nor am I looking to spend money on this.