My website (small, low-traffic, simple wordpress) has been having intermittent and unexplained high CPU usage and errors for literally years. No informative error messages. Web developers couldn't help. The host couldn't help. I *moved* to a 5x the price host in the hope it would escape from whatever was wrong in the old server that no-one could find. But the error came back. This is the graph of the last 30 days for context.

This is the graph of today so far. The arrow marks the time where I started blocking facebook's scraping bots.

#facebook #meta #webdev #sysadmin

On the one hand: incredibly relieved to have finally solved this.

One the other hand: fairly annoyed and embarrassed that I hadn't thought to try it before because it was such a simple fix in the end.

On the third hand: WHY THE HELL SHOULD I EXPECT FACEBOOK SCRAPING BOTS TO DO THIS