In the last 24 hours my small personal website got 8 legitimate visitors and 74,000 requests from bots, most of which were either malicious or aggressive ai crawlers

I had Virgin Media broadband when I was a student from roughly 2013-2016. It was cheap because they were the only ISP at the time that didn’t bundle a phone line. It was unreliable, never hit advertised speeds and was throttled to all hell. The first time I called to cancel it, I discovered that their cancellation hotline (the only way to cancel) was offline for the entire day due to a ‘network upgrade’.

Recently a Virgin media salesperson came to my house to promote their new fiber network and when I told him I had been a customer for 3 years and thought the service was terrible he said he didn’t want to hear about it.

I wish them a very happy bankruptcy.