Well, you can spend a little time putting some anti-bot measures into place, or you can spend money paying a larger hosting bill for all the wasted CPU time, or

Well, you can spend a little time putting some anti-bot measures into place, or you can spend money paying a larger hosting bill for all the wasted CPU time, or you can spend some time explaining to legitimate users why the site fell over under the unwanted load. The person who started this reply thread repeated part of it twice for good reason. Bots, unchecked, can and do take up a majority of the resources on small to medium sites. I'd have been much happier with the article if the author had taken a moment to implement a bit of throttling on his end to at least go easy on the remote server.