22 Feb 2026
GPTBot Abuse Case Study: OpenAI's Bot Causing DDoS
Late on a Sunday afternoon, a monitoring system flagged a CPU spike on one of our shared hosting servers.
Late on a Sunday afternoon, a monitoring system flagged a CPU spike on one of our shared hosting servers.
The Problem: Your Website Is Invisible to AI and You Don’t Even Know ItYou’re ranking well. You’re publishing content. You’re doing, “everything right.” But your traffic is dropping. Your content is being read, but not credited.