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> I can handle hundreds of requests per day with no issue on a home cable modem connection and my desktop pc running nginx.

And what kind of ecommerce site are you running on that nginx? First thing that get overwhelmed by bot traffic is DB. With a tiny one, with low total connection limit and bots hitting less common path like browsing 20th page of product search results, it is really easy to get DoS. I remember having to block Yandex user agent 20 years ago, surprising no one wanted to allocate additional resources so that crawler is happy.

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If your ecommerce site cannot handle a hundred requests a day, I'm going to blame the "victim". I think it'd be time to take such a site and put it behind a login for the tens of users of it.