Hide simplehelp server from bots

Server Administration
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after receive a lot of DDOS attacks from brazil, i’ve tried to remove all my simplehelp public urls from google and avoid this to be indexed again.

first, i’ve added this lines to “head“ section in all the html files presents in deploy folder:

<meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow">
<meta name="googlebot" content="noindex, nofollow">
<meta name="bingbot" content="noindex, nofollow">

then, i’ve added my public url to google search console. it was easy because it’s a subdomain of my corporative website, then google search console have confirmed property automatically.

then, i’ve added the entire site to the search console “removal tool“

after a week, attacks have been reduced in 50%

lets see if this have more effect in the next weeks, obviously some attackers have my public address in their database, but i think that they find new targets constantly using crawlers

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only to confirm that, after 5 months of noindex and nofollow modification, 100% of attacks was disappeared slowly

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There needs to be an option to add to the section - there are 20-30 files buried in the subfolders that a spider might bump into.