Magento 2 - Configuring Nginx Rate Limiting
Configuring Nginx rate limiting for Magento is both simple to get started, but complex to find the right balance. It is a great way to combat malicious traffic from web scrapers/crawlers, and less respectful 3rd party integrations. The default nginx status code for the limit is 503, it is important to change this to HTTP 429 Too Many Requests. HTTP 429 is the standard rate limiting code, and should prevent any negative indexing results with search engines, and as a bonus any bots should slow their crawl rate (if they respect the response code)....