AI Search Bots Overwhelm Hosting, Leading to Blocks

By PulseAugur Editorial · [1 sources] · 2026-06-12 04:03

A website administrator has blocked the "Claude-SearchBot" due to excessive requests, causing significant strain on their shared hosting. This follows a similar issue with "Amzn-SearchBot" being blocked for the same reason. The administrator contrasted this with the lighter footprint of GoogleBot and BingBot, expressing frustration with the perceived incompetence of AI companies in managing their web crawlers. AI

IMPACT AI search bots' resource consumption can negatively impact website performance and lead to access restrictions.

RANK_REASON User expresses frustration and opinion about AI search bots' impact on web hosting.

Read on Mastodon — fosstodon.org →

infra
other

AI-generated summary · Google Gemini · from 1 sources. How we write summaries →

COVERAGE [1]

Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] · 2026-06-12 04:03

I try to be friendly to "AI" search web crawlers but I'm on (pretty good) shared hosting and "Claude-SearchBot" has been hammering my site with ~12000 requests

I try to be friendly to "AI" search web crawlers but I'm on (pretty good) shared hosting and "Claude-SearchBot" has been hammering my site with ~12000 requests now, in intervals between 1-4 seconds. Inevitably, it ended up on the blocklist because of the excessive resource consum…

COVERAGE [1]

I try to be friendly to "AI" search web crawlers but I'm on (pretty good) shared hosting and "Claude-SearchBot" has been hammering my site with ~12000 requests

RELATED TOPICS