I use Zip Bombs to Protect my Server

Bots be warned 

By Ibrahim Diallo
Published Apr 17 2025 ~ 5 minutes read

The majority of the traffic on the web is from bots. For the most part, these bots are used to discover new content. These are RSS Feed readers, search engines crawling your content, or nowadays AI bots crawling content to power LLMs. But then there are the malicious bots. These are from spammers, content scrapers or hackers. At my old employer, a bot discovered a wordpress vulnerability and inserted a malicious script into our server. It then turned the machine into a botnet used for DDOS. One of my first websites was yanked off of Google search entirely due to bots generating spam. At some point, I had to find a way to protect myself from these bots. That's when I started using zip bombs.

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What is GnuRAMage?

GnuRAMage is a sophisticated yet humble Bash tool that bridges the gap between your sluggish rotating rust (hard drives) and the blazing fast silicon heaven (RAM disks). It's like having a very diligent intern who never sleeps, constantly ensuring your files are where they should be, when they should be there.

This tool was born out of the necessity to manage multi-terabyte RAM disks without losing one's sanity or data. Because let's face it, having terabytes of RAM without proper synchronization is like having a Ferrari without brakes - exciting, but ultimately catastrophic.