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# Bot policy for DocPlanner doctor websites (websites-app).
#
# Aggressive SEO/backlink crawlers and scanners repeatedly saturated the shared
# PHP-FPM pool on p2, causing simultaneous liveness-probe failures and mass pod
# restarts. Throttle the polite high-volume crawlers and block abusive
# backlink/scanner bots. Real visitors and Google/Bing are unaffected.

# High-volume SEO crawlers: throttle (kept for SEO value)
User-agent: AhrefsBot
Crawl-delay: 30

User-agent: SemrushBot
Crawl-delay: 30

User-agent: PetalBot
Crawl-delay: 30

User-agent: DataForSeoBot
Crawl-delay: 30

# Abusive / low-value backlink & mass-scan bots: block outright
User-agent: MJ12bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: DotBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: BLEXBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: SERankingBacklinksBot
Disallow: /

# Everyone else: gentle global crawl delay
User-agent: *
Crawl-delay: 10