WooCommerce CPU & Bot Mitigation

A WooCommerce store is experiencing extremely high CPU usage due to a large-scale bot attack. Malicious traffic is overwhelming the server, causing slow page loads, intermittent downtime, and excessive resource consumption.

The required work includes identifying the source of the bot traffic, implementing effective server-side and application-level protection, optimizing WooCommerce performance, configuring security rules (Cloudflare, firewall, rate limiting, or similar), and ensuring legitimate customers can browse and complete purchases without disruption. The solution must permanently mitigate the attack while maintaining normal store functionality.