A quiet week, a loud bill
Almost nobody visited your site this week. Your hosting bill is forty times higher than usual.
This answers: Why is my hosting bill high with few visitors? No coding needed. 3 quick decisions.
- Costs and abuse
- How a request travels
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Why is my hosting bill high with few visitors?
On usage-based hosting you pay for every request, compute second and gigabyte, whether a person or a bot sent it. AI can send tens of thousands of requests that each trigger paid work. Block unwanted crawlers at your host, cache expensive pages and images, and set a hard spend limit.
Breaks at Hosting: Every bot request is billed work
How it works
| Day | People | Bots |
|---|---|---|
| Mon | 180 | 260 |
| Tue | 210 | 300 |
| Wed | 160 | 9400 |
| Thu | 190 | 12100 |
| Fri | 230 | 14800 |
| Sat | 120 | 13300 |
| Sun | 110 | 11900 |
Why AI tools write this bug
Generated apps render pages and resize images on demand by default, which is cheap for ten visitors and expensive for fifty thousand bot requests.
How to fix it
- Check your usage dashboard for top user agents and paths.
3 more steps, and a prompt that checks your own app for this bug. Part of Pro.
UnlockCommon questions
- Does robots.txt stop AI crawlers?
- Only polite ones. Pair it with blocking at your host and a spend cap.