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I generally prefer to go up a level. We install ultimate bad bot blocker at the nginx level for apps running on servers or in K8S. For Heroku you can do this with foremen or docker. The advantage of this is that the ‘no’ happens faster than it does when making it all the way down to rack. RackAttack might let a door to door salesperson say “hi,I’m here to talk to you about solar” before slamming the door. Nginx let’s the same salesperson barely say “hi ..” before slamming the door in their face.