Claudebot Is Hammering My Server with Almost a Million Requests in One Day
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The author's server is being overwhelmed by ClaudeBot, an AI crawler, with nearly a million requests in a day, sparking concerns about server load and potential solutions.
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cranberryturkey
3 months ago
I name all my bots "ClaudeBot" (-:
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