On April 24th 2026, i saw the worst continuous wave of scraping ever on my infrastructure. My VPS (a puny 1vCPU with 200Mbps of bandwidth) sustained a continuous 3k req/min (~50 requests per second) for more than 24 hours. As i write and prepare to publish this, an even worse wave sustained at more than 4k req/min is paralyzing my whole infrastructure.