Ask HN: Hammered by SEO / Competitor Research Bots?

2 points by hello_computer 3y ago ↗ HN

Noticed my webserver's CPU being pegged. Looks like almost 60% of my traffic yesterday came from "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; SemrushBot/7~bl; +http://www.semrush.com/bot.html)", from the 185.191.171.0/24 network. Anyone else being pounded by SEO / competitor research bots?