Hi Bob, I remember recently cgit was disabled due to abuse. I don't know the exact details, but I saw that FreeBSD's cgit was having similar issues with being taken down by bots crawling. I figured I would share an article about how they worked around it in case it is helpful [1].
Collin [1] https://blog.sysopscafe.com/posts/ai-crawlers-hammering-git-repos/
