Yep we've been seeing that on our random small scale site that used to be open (and mostly relevant to a very limited number of people). It was nice for intere

Yep we've been seeing that on our random small scale site that used to be open (and mostly relevant to a very limited number of people). It was nice for interested guests to get an impression of what we are doing. First the AI crawlers came in from foreign countries that could be blocked. Then they beat down the small server by being very distributed, calling from thousands of ips one or two requests each. We finally put a stop to it by requiring a login with a message informing people to physically show up to gain access. Worked fine for over 15 years but AI finally killed it.