How To Slow Down A Generic Bot?

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There is a generic bot (only identified as 'bot*') consuming most of my bandwidth and processing power. Blocking its IP stops it but since it comes from a well-known search-engine, I'd rather slow it down instead (it may be doing some useful experimental work). It's not the official crawler which actually visits my site a reasonable rate.

There is a similar question for GoogleBot which I have no problems with. The culprit takes 16X more bandwidth! What I need though is a way to slow down a bot which is only distinguishable by IP. Is this possible?

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This is a Virtual Shared Host running Apache under Linux 64-bits with PHP 5.3.8. Although I have no direct control to the webserver, htaccess is enabled and I can have them add and configure modules on request.

This question is rather light on details. It would potentially be helpful to know which OS, http daemon, and application language you're using. — Peter Taylor, Sep 28 '11 at 15:42

score 4 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:14

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You can try the tips in this discussion. I think this can help you !

https://serverfault.com/questions/131364/apache-limit-the-number-of-requests-traffic-per-ip

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:14

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answered Sep 28 '11 at 18:24

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