LLM scraper bots are overloading acme.com's HTTPS server (acme.com) AI

After intermittent outages in February–March, the ACME Updates author traced the issue to HTTPS traffic being overwhelmed by LLM scraper bots requesting many non-existent pages. When they temporarily closed port 443, the outages stopped, suggesting the slow HTTPS server and downstream congestion/NAT saturation were contributing. The author notes the same bot behavior is affecting other hobbyist sites and says a longer-term fix is needed.