In Laravel/ Forge, what is the best way to handle the Server spammer

Hi,

I am looking for some suggestion on best practice to handle server spammer in my servers.

Do we have any setting in Forge or something we can do to handle server spamming?

I have been using Forge to creating AWS server and everything is fine.

However the server is constantly got hit by external spamming software, which trying to ping the server with different URL.

I understand this is quite normal for any server. And we can handle it in Laravel by catching the NotFoundHttpException and return it with a page and/or 404 or 200 status etc.

But is there a better way and wondering how others would handle it differently?

Cheers,