Marc: “I recently migrated a few of my projects to Laravel Cloud, a…”

Marc @stausmar2h

I recently migrated a few of my projects to Laravel Cloud, and I'm very happy so far 🙌 Scale-to-zero is a great feature! Unfortunately I'm getting so much automated bot traffic so that my apps are not sleeping most of the time. Anyone else experiencing the same? 🤔

4:46 PM · Oct 16, 2026commit bd62777

Robert Holak @rholak2h

What kind of traffic? Maybe this will help: https://laravel-news.com/laravel-cloud-adds-path-blocking-to-prevent-bots-from-waking-hibernated-apps

Laravel NewsLaravel Cloud Adds Path Blocking to Prevent Bots From Waking Hibernated AppsLaravel Cloud now supports path blocking, letting you stop bot requests to common paths and file types from waking hibernated applications.

Jaidev Bangar @solaxes1h

That's an interesting downside of scale-to-zero! 😅 Have you tried Cloudflare or rate limiting to filter bot traffic before it reaches your app? Could help reduce unnecessary wake-ups. 🚀