Lemmy newb here, not sure if this is right for this /c.
An article I found from someone who hosts their own website and micro-social network, and their experience with web-scraping robots who refuse to respect robots.txt, and how they deal with them.
The admin could use a CDN and not worry about it, if it’s just static content.
I believe using a CDN would defeat the author’s goal of not being reliant on third-party service providers.