Sheesh
~73,000 simultaneous hits on the site from bots.
I made a change to increase the database size for such hits before the site dies. No idea what the limit is, but hopefully I get several other things tested and implemented for long term stability. Meanwhile, I can just 'clear the cache' periodically to clean this crap out.
Now just learning more about what 'Cloudflare' does, which is a principal external recommendation by AI to defend against a mass bot-attack.
Ted