Protect Your Web Server From Spambots

Tags: apache, ip ban, iptables, spambots
Posted 1181 days ago.

Since moving from shared hosting to a virtual server, I felt I had to do something about the endless numbers of robots that are harvesting my sites for email addresses, stealing content or running security scanners on my web server to find exploits to report to their human owner. This is the solution I came up with: