[asats]

I've some personal apps online and I had to turn the cloudflare ai bot protection on because one of them got 1.6TB of data accessed by the bots in the last month, 1.3 million requests per day, just non stop hammering it with no limits.

[immibis]

So, under the free traffic tier of any decent provider.

[asats]

The pages are not static and require computation to serve, and there's more than one app on that same bare metal server, so it was negatively affecting the performance of a lot of my other stuff.

If I couldn't easily cut off the majority of that bot volume I probably would've shut down the app entirely.