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How to Enable Bad Bot Blocking for Vultr CDN Push Zones

Updated on April 3, 2025

Bad Bot Blocking in Vultr CDN Push Zones helps protect your site by blocking unwanted bots from accessing your content. This feature reduces unnecessary traffic and ensures that only legitimate users can interact with your content, enhancing the security and efficiency of your site. By enabling Bad Bot blocking, you safeguard your resources and maintain a smoother experience for genuine visitors.

Follow this guide to enable the Bad Bot blocking feature for Vultr CDN Push Zones on your Vultr account using the Vultr Customer Portal, API, or CLI.

  • Vultr Customer Portal
  • Vultr API
  • Vultr CLI
  1. Navigate to Products, click CDN, and then click Push Zones.
  2. Click your target CDN Push Zone subscription to open its management page.
  3. Click Features.
  4. Select block_bad_bots and click Update Features.

  1. Send a GET request to the List CDN Push Zones endpoint and note the target Push Zone subscription's ID.

    console 
    $ curl "https://api.vultr.com/v2/cdns/push-zones" \
    -X GET \
    -H "Authorization: Bearer ${VULTR_API_KEY}"

  2. Send a PUT request to the Update CDN Push Zone endpoint to enable Bad Bot blocking feature for your target Push Zone subscription.

    console 
    $ curl "https://api.vultr.com/v2/cdns/push-zones/{pushzone-id}" \
    -X PUT \
    -H "Authorization: Bearer ${VULTR_API_KEY}" \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    --data '{
        "block_bad_bots": true
    }'

  1. List all available CDN Push Zone subscriptions and note the target Push Zone subscription's ID.

    console 
    $ vultr-cli cdn push list

  2. Enable Bad Bot blocking feature for your target Push Zone subscription.

    console 
    $ vultr-cli cdn push update <pushzone-id> --block-bad-bots

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