ServerHunterSpider
Hosting and VPS price comparison crawler
About this crawler
ServerHunterSpider is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern ServerHunterSpider\/ in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as seo. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block ServerHunterSpider traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
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0.33%
Technical details
- Name
- ServerHunterSpider
- Pattern
ServerHunterSpider\/- Tags
- seo
- Reference
- https://www.serverhunter.com/
- Added
- 2026/04/17
- rDNS suffixes
.hunter.io- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
rDNS verification (FCrDNS)
Verify a request is genuinely ServerHunterSpider with forward-confirmed reverse DNS: the client IP's PTR record must end in one of the suffixes below and a forward A/AAAA lookup of that hostname must return the same IP. UA strings alone are spoofable; FCrDNS is not.
.hunter.io
Sample User-Agent strings
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; ServerHunterSpider/1.1; +https://www.serverhunter.com/spider/)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow ServerHunterSpider:
User-agent: ServerHunterSpider
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ServerHunterSpider\/ [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "ServerHunterSpider\\/") {
return 403;
}
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