> In this test, the framework responds with the simplest of responses: a "Hello, World" message rendered as plain text.
What a ridiculous comparison. You either don't know what you are talking about, or are a troll. Maybe even both.
there are more complex tests in that benchmark. my point was, a decent server can serve tens or hundreds of thousands requests per second when it's a few kilobytes of static content from a RAM database.
as long as your web service isn't horribly mismanaged, even to a $5 VPS the bot traffic is infinitesimal background radiation.