Comment by Meekro

I've heard lots of people on HN complaining about bot traffic bogging down their websites, and as a website operator myself I'm honestly puzzled. If you're already using Cloudflare, some basic cache configuration should guarantee that most bot traffic hits the cache and doesn't bog down your servers. And even if you don't want to do that, bandwidth and CPU are so cheap these days that it shouldn't make a difference. Why is everyone so upset?