How AI Crawlers Are Draining Small Websites
Like a spider quietly creeping through your home, AI Web Crawlers are intruders of your website infrastructure.
By now, most of us have heard the term “AI crawlers.” These are the bots deployed by companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google to scour the web for content to train large language models (LLMs). But what’s less discussed (and far more urgent for small businesses) is the hidden cost of this digital harvesting: server strain, bandwidth spikes, and anal…
