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0 pointsoefrha1y ago0 comments

This comment is so out of touch I’m almost speechless.

> > critical, compute heavy endpoints through multiple exit nodes totaling ~20,000 RPS

> 20000 RPS is very little

If I had to guess you’ve never hosted non-static websites so you can’t imagine what’s a compute heavy endpoint.

> Using Gmail should be a red flag on its own.

Yes, ban users signing up with Gmail then.

And this is not an isolated case, discussions on DDoS, CAPTCHAs, etc. here always have these out of touch people coming out of the woodwork. Baffling.

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altfredd1y ago

> you can’t imagine what’s a compute heavy endpoint

Indeed, I can't. Because "compute heavy" isn't a meaningful description. Is it written in C++? Are results persisted anywhere? Is it behind a queue? What is the caching strategy?

Given that original post mentions free Cloudflare tier, there is a good chance, that "compute" might mean something like "ordinary Python application, making several hundreds database requests". This is also a kind of high-load, but not the worst one by far.

supriyo-biswas1y ago

I won't be exactly saying what it is to maintain my privacy, but the compute heavy part of it is not your run out of the mill web traffic but rather performs some heavy processing of input files, this part is written in Go.

This function of the website is different from the user-generated content part of the website where the traffic resembles those of regular dynamic websites with database reads and writes.

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