I love the creativity here! Good "active defense" posture. (Too bad it didn't seem to stop Nikto scans.)

Honeypots can be fun. I vaguely remember one that generated endless fake folders to bog down spiders.

Edit: here's one for SSH, but the one I was thinking of was for web servers. https://github.com/desaster/kippo/blob/master/README.md

yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14707674 (607 points, 182 comments)