Looking at the visits logs for my small server based in Connecticut that serves up Connecticut-focused content:

Huh, that sure is an increase over the normal background roar of bot traffic.
Dang it, Thailand! Also, dangit Philipinnes, Taiwan, and Hong Kong.
Anyways, off to see if there's a more granular way to block these bots than blocking the whole country. (I can't even block by IP--each request has a fresh one.) #bots #webservers #systemslibrarian

Like, ok, I get it, bots will scrape my site. I work in a library. Please, take my info. But this level of traffic is causing timeouts on my server and I don't like that--it reduces availability for flesh-and-blood visitors. #bots #webservers #systemslibrarian