In the past several months many sites have seen massive traffic spikes from AI bots. This has lead to overloaded web servers, inflated web hosting costs, and negative effects for legitimate traffic.

Sites using a CDN can block some of this unwanted traffic relatively easy, once you know how.

Here's how I blocked bots using Cloudflare:

One of the most powerful and most useful modules on Drupal is Views. With one screen you can build custom pages & blocks based around your content, select the exact fields you need, add filters and arguments, and relatively easily customize the display, and that's just scratching the surface. In fact, Views is so flexible that I've built sites which have 90% of their architecture based solely around taxonomies and Views.