[doc] add some documentation about the limiter plugin (and redis)

Requested-by: https://github.com/searxng/searxng/discussions/993#discussioncomment-2396914
Signed-off-by: Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarit.de>
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# pyright: basic
"""Some bot protection / rate limitation
To monitore rate limits and protect privacy the IP addresses are getting stored
with a hash so the limiter plugin knows who to block. A redis database is
needed to store the hash values.
Enable the plugin in ``settings.yml``:
- ``server.limiter: true``