Master Nginx Rate Limiting & Anti‑Crawler: Complete Guide with Token Bucket, GeoIP, Lua & JS Challenges
This comprehensive guide explains why modern web services need rate limiting and anti‑crawler protection, compares token‑bucket and leaky‑bucket algorithms, and provides step‑by‑step Nginx configurations for IP, URI, and geographic throttling, advanced user‑agent filtering, JavaScript challenges, real‑time monitoring, performance tuning, and troubleshooting.
