Webspace Invaders
Summary
Matthias Ott recounts a personal hosting outage caused by AI bot traffic and regional blocking, arguing that AI scrapers harvest content from small sites at scale. He questions centralized defenses like Cloudflare and provides practical, DIY mitigations (robots.txt, nginx blocks, rate limiting, log monitoring, IP blocklists, and WAF options) while highlighting the tension between openness of the open web and the need to protect small publishers.