install rate limit. limit zone of how much you can crawl zfrika.com
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go to nginx. updated sites-available/zfirka.com with the following code. # burst=10 means it allows a small "burst" of requests before blocking # nodelay ensures the user doesn't feel lag unless they hit the limit limit_req zone=req_limit_per_ip burst=10 nodelay; verified that nginx.conf had code. ## limit_req_zone $binary_remote_addr zone=req_limit_per_ip:10m rate=1r/s; updated the request from 1r/s to 5r/s.
upblock the denied ip and see what if your logs get overwhelmed.