This is happening because the various AI/LLM content scrapers are overloading our relatively frugal self-supporting hosting environment. jaybonci has enabled some protections against the worst offenders, but most of the AI trainers utterly ignore robots.txt and it's difficult to manage the traffic. E2 has historically had a fairly high Google pagerank for a lot of relatively popular search terms, and as a result it's a natural target for this kind of abusive crap.