Been testing IPset with the 10k IPs block list from the free tier of https://www.abuseipdb.com/ and it reduced the load on a LAMP server by close to 50%. Pretty amazing if these results are validated over time.
@lisbonjoker Yes, on that server yes. Apache with https://ipset.netfilter.org/ is not very resource hungry and as it runs in memory it can parse the 10k IP list pretty darn fast.