An artist says Meta’s bots overwhelmed her website and left her scrambling to protect her business
Source: Business Insider ·
An artist said Meta bots hit her site 550,000 times in days, overwhelming her host and leaving her struggling to keep her business online.
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A Meta crawler bot visited a San Diego artist's website more than 550,000 times in 48 hours, consuming nearly all of her site's traffic allowance.Marcin Golba/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesA Meta crawler bot visited a San Diego artist's website more than 550,000 times in 48 hours.The bots are now using 100% of her site's traffic allowance, essentially taking it down.Meta told Business Insider that website managers can decide how our crawlers interact with sites.A San Diego-based artist wanted more people to visit her website.Instead, she said she got more than 550,000 hits from a Meta bot and is scrambling to keep her business online.Chelsea Paulus, a children’s author and illustrator, told Business Insider that an automated visitor overwhelmed her website’s hosting resources, forcing her to troubleshoot the problem with her hosting provider.“This has never happened before,” Paulus said. "It has been an incredibly stressful week, even with some of my technical knowledge to handle…
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