Surely not this reason. The costs of all my low-traffic websites becomes 10x more. The traffics of these websites are on par with two months ago.
On Thursday, September 2, 2021 at 10:57:16 AM UTC-4 Joshua Smith wrote: > The thing that I've noticed is that the amount of bot traffic hitting my > sites has been steadily increasing. I've addressed this through a > combination of robots.txt and blocking certain IP address blocks in the > firewall (I block the ones that don't respect crawl-delay or don't respect > robots.txt). > > It's a never-ending battle against these bots that all seem to be building > their own google-scale web databases. > > If your costs are coming from frontend instances, the simple solution to > that is to just limit the maximum number of those. Although that means when > you do get a traffic spike, users will suffer. > > -Joshua > > On Sep 2, 2021, at 10:48 AM, Tapir <[email protected]> wrote: > > > The costs of my projects rocketed from $5 to $50 in the previous months. > Anyone else also got the same experience? > > My websites are very small. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/e122d075-4147-4151-b156-693c21484afdn%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/e122d075-4147-4151-b156-693c21484afdn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/1d934cd5-4bf5-437a-a401-306173928ce4n%40googlegroups.com.
