I sympathize with the general gist of your post, but I've seen many a bot generate more traffic than legitimate users on our site. Never had any actual perform

I sympathize with the general gist of your post, but I've seen many a bot generate more traffic than legitimate users on our site. Never had any actual performance issue, but I can see why a site that expects generally a very low traffic rate might freak out. Could they better optimize their sites? Probably, I know ours sucks big time. But in the era of autoscaling workloads on someone else's computer, a misconfigured site could rack up a big ass bill.