If you define a new bot "ClaudBot" in the ACP > Spiders / Robots, that should tell you if it's the cause. I hadn't noticed a slowdown, but prompted by this topic, I checked and yes, that bot was making A LOT of requests. I added it to my blocked list on Cloudflare WAF (see How to prevent DDoS attacks? for details). Based on what I've seen in the events log, these so-called "AI Crawlers" are really aggressive about page requests.
If you're on a shared server and you're not behind a CDN, I can see how it would be easy for such bot activity to overwhelm your server.![:|]( "Neutral")
If you're on a shared server and you're not behind a CDN, I can see how it would be easy for such bot activity to overwhelm your server.
Statistics: Posted by HB — Sat Apr 27, 2024 12:11 am