What exactly are you serving that bot traffic affects your quality of service?
I've seen an RPi serve a few dozen QPS of dynamic content without issue... The only service I've had actually get successfully taken down by benign bots is a Gitea-style git forges (which was 'fixed' by deploying Anubis in front of it).
I've seen an RPi serve a few dozen QPS of dynamic content without issue... The only service I've had actually get successfully taken down by benign bots is a Gitea-style git forges (which was 'fixed' by deploying Anubis in front of it).