Using Discourse with Cloudflare: Best Practices

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I would suggest turning off AI bots within Cloudflare. This can be found under security->bots->block AI bots.

The AI bots were hammering my site with 30K to 40K page views daily. After turning on this filter, my AI bot traffic significantly dropped.

The bar chart depicts site traffic distributions, segmented into categories like Logged-in, Anonymously, Known Crawler, and Other, with varying traffic volumes across different categories. (Captioned by AI)
The bar chart depicts site traffic distributions, segmented into categories like Logged-in, Anonymously, Known Crawler, and Other, with varying traffic volumes across different categories. (Captioned by AI)1165×307 11.3 KB

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