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To: Openurmind

but we are going to absolutely pay dearly for it later. If the FR has the normal rates and plan their host provides they are already paying dearly for the extra bandwidth AI bots are eating up. It just isn’t right at all...

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Would you please explain what you mean?


55 posted on 10/12/2025 6:27:37 PM PDT by Chickensoup
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To: Chickensoup

The FR is now hosted by a third party. Has been for quite awhile now. When I searched out who it was I read their hosting plans and rates because I was interested in possible hosting for myself. I was not really happy with mine at the time. But all I could find from that host were “pay per how much bandwidth a month you use” plans.

So unless they were able to get a flat rate deal instead? The more bandwidth they use a month the more they are charged per month. Which means when AI crawls put an extra load on the server bandwidth then the FR has to pay for that extra load. AI is stealing Data, and the FR is the one footing the bill for the extra bandwidth for them to steal it. It is costing the FR money they should not have to pay because of that extra AI load.

I am currently fortunate that we have a flat rate plan so the extra load has not cost us anything extra yet. But it is killing our site, it is almost like a DDoS attack during peak internet use times of the day. So I am going to have to shut down all bot access. The FR could do this, but it would also shut down their search engine bot access which is advertising.

They are putting domain owners between a rock and a hard place. Hosts should absolutely be helping their customers with this new burden and problem. Unfortunately “their” cure is to force you to use ClouFlare. And CloudFlare is a tool currently being used for information control and censorship. It literally gave the government a kill switch and control over information.

So CloudFlare is not a good cure at all... This is all by design...


56 posted on 10/12/2025 6:54:11 PM PDT by Openurmind (AI - An Illusion for Aptitude Intrusion to Alter Intellect. )
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