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AI Crawlers Are Eating Your Bandwidth: Block, Slow, or Bill Them

Last month I opened my server metrics expecting the usual flat line and found something else instead: a third of my bandwidth was going to bots. Not Googlebot — I want Googlebot. These were AI crawlers, and they were hitting my site harder than my actual readers. That was the moment I stopped treat…

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  1. 2026-11-10 07:05 · DEV Community — AI
    AI Crawlers Are Eating Your Bandwidth: Block, Slow, or Bill Them

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