I had the same problem, tried a bunch of stuff, banned millions of IPs, but nothing really worked. I ended up spending a bunch of time rewriting the website wit

I had the same problem, tried a bunch of stuff, banned millions of IPs, but nothing really worked. I ended up spending a bunch of time rewriting the website with Codex so that it is more efficient. Now I'm still getting the same junk traffic, but it barely affects the CPU anymore. I think this might be the way to go.