Looking for advice for a problem happening with my developer. I got a email stating that there was an unusually high amount of resources being pulled from our site. We own a vintage jewelry sales website that was built and hosted by this developer. They stated that facebook bots were crawling our website, and causing resources to be pulled from other sites hosted on the same server. They recommended we purchase a dedicated server to host our site. After googling this we found that there should be a solution to create a rule to limit or block Facebook bots from crawling our site. We brought this to their attention, and they said they could implement this and bill us for a half hour of work. After the successfully implemented this they then took down our site saying that they had to do it as our site was bringing down their server. Trying to find out whats going on as it feels as though my site is being held hostage unless I purchase a dedicated server.

Looking for advice for a problem happening with my developer. I got a email stating that there was an unusually high amount of resources being pulled from our site. We own a vintage jewelry sales website that was built and hosted by this developer. They stated that facebook bots were crawling our website, and causing resources to be pulled from other sites hosted on the same server. They recommended we purchase a dedicated server to host our site. After googling this we found that there should be a solution to create a rule to limit or block Facebook bots from crawling our site. We brought this to their attention, and they said they could implement this and bill us for a half hour of work. After the successfully implemented this they then took down our site saying that they had to do it as our site was bringing down their server. Trying to find out whats going on as it feels as though my site is being held hostage unless I purchase a dedicated server.