This comic follows on from the Previous comic which will almost certainly provide context.
You might not wanna be famous, but when you’re level 10, every organization within a mile is watching what you’re doing.
Yeah, you might need some combination of fail2ban for rude AI and cloudflare caching or something.
Whoever their host is, they already appear to have some type of load balancing based on the four IPS. But I would also agree that a free cloudflare account does wonders for most WordPress users. But that’s probably mostly because it filters out a shitload of bots and known bad actors. Just make sure you set up your origin certificates if you use a cloudflare account.
Have you also enabled Bot Fight Mode? (There’s a setting to “Block AI bots” that seems useful in your situation)