Site crashing after mass email

Hi, we send out mass emails via mailchimp to a mailing list, about 8,000 people at a time, every time we do the site crashes, I believe its due to email bots/ scanning opening the link to the site. we instantly get about 1000 clicks to the website but it causes it to crash. Is there anyway to stop this other than sending the emails to less people?

 

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