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Could be because of number of pages you have. At work we have several million public content pages, so a few badly behaving bots can already do a lot of damage.

For my personal website it’s 10x more bots but I barely notice because it’s a few pages.

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Get a letsencrypt cert, I always get a massive wave of vulnerability probers after renewing.
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[delayed]
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I don't even have a domain name and I'm getting lots of hits.
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I recently brought up a website on a never-before-seen .com domain. Within about 10 mins of bringing it up with a SSL certificate, Anthropic came knocking on the door requesting the front page. (Almost certainty due to them watching the Public Certificate Transparency logs)
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Old and busted: serverless

New hotness: DNS-less

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