pingoo

You may want to take a look at Pingoo (https://github.com/pingooio/pingoo), a reverse proxy with automatic TLS that can also block bots with advanced rules that go beyond simple IP blocking.

Take a look at https://github.com/pingooio/pingoo It's a reverse-proxy / load balancer with built-in firewall and automatic HTTPS. You will be able to easily block the annoying bots with rules (https://pingoo.io/docs/rules)

For TLS I would recommend https://github.com/pingooio/pingoo instead which has automatic certificate management and is really easy to setup.

As of today, it looks like Pingoo is back! :-) https://github.com/pingooio/pingoo

Edit: The situation has been solved! Thank you very much to all the people who reached out and helped to resolve the situation in less than 2 hours! Hi HN, I just launched my project on GitHub last week (https://pingoo.io / https://github.com/pingooio/pingoo, the fast, secure and easy-to-use Load Balancer / API Gateway / Reverse Proxy with built-in service discovery, GeoIP, WAF, bot protection and more). The project seems to have some traction with almost 600 stars in a week, but after doing some maintenance, my account has been automatically blocked, and it seems that my organizations are no longer accessible and their support is not reachable. This is a very bad situation, so I'm reaching to the community if anyone can help, or has a friend who can help, or has a big audience on X/Twitter and can get a real Human to help. One of the wor