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And poor, sloppy, website implementation. If your professional website can't handle 20k hits it's ... well, poor. Because my home connection hosted on my desktop PC website tanked 20k hits from alibaba bot (among a few more thousand of normal traffic) yesterday without missing a beat.

It is literally the point of public websites to answer HTTP requests. If yours can't you're doing something wrong.



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