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Attie Grande

@leah I've been supporting a small company with their website issues - their dev has been complaining about the database server for a long time... turns out ~80% of their traffic was Claude, and the remaining ~20% was Facebook's bot. After blocking these two based on their user agent, the CPU usage on the system has gone from "pinned at 100%" to basically idle, and response times have fallen back into the acceptable range (previously there were regular spikes to many minutes)

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Attie Grande

@leah When I first blocked Claude (based on user agent, returning HTTP 403) the bot went from multiple requests per second to an absolute flood of requests - the processing and response time was way down, so their request rate went way, WAY up... this is attack behaviour.

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