So it’s highly likely that all the crawler bots and AI information-gathering is what’s slowing our site down. At least according to our provider.
They suggest a 3rd-party “front end” (cloudflare) to put in front of our site to alleviate the problem. It’s somewhat a tricky change and will likely take the site down for a few hours while things change over. I’m going to do a bit more research in hopes of making the change soon, maybe even this weekend.
More details to come…
(fortunately it looks like we qualify for a “free” plan at Cloudflare)
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