# Keeping AI crawlers off my Forgejo server

DevFeed: [Keeping AI crawlers off my Forgejo server](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/keeping-ai-crawlers-off-my-forgejo-server-38540.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://msfjarvis.dev/posts/keeping-ai-crawlers-off-my-forgejo-server/>)

Author: Harsh Shandilya

Published: 2026-06-29T04:53:18Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Posts on Harsh Shandilya](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/posts-on-harsh-shandilya.md>)

Topics: [forgejo](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/forgejo.md>), [AI Bots](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-bots.md>), [Cloudflare](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloudflare.md>), [Security](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/security.md>), [Fail2ban](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/fail2ban.md>), [Server](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/server.md>)

Tags: [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [ai-crawlers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-crawlers.md>), [cloudflare](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloudflare.md>), [crawlers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/crawlers.md>), [fail2ban](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/fail2ban.md>), [forgejo](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/forgejo.md>), [security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/security.md>), [server](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/server.md>)

## AI overview

A developer describes mitigating AI crawler traffic against a Forgejo instance using fail2ban, Caddy configuration, and Cloudflare rules. The measures reduced some traffic but also exposed client-IP handling and availability issues, while IP bans approached Cloudflare's access-rule limit.

## Source excerpt

The short and bumbling journey to finally giving my tiny VPS some respite