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0 pointsparineum11mo ago0 comments

Request pacing sounds intentionally unabusive.

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j16sdiz11mo ago

It is not bringing down your server, but they are taking 80%+ of your bandwidth budget. Does this count as abuse?

immibis11mo ago

Are you at a hoster with extortionately expensive bandwidth, such as AWS, GCP, or Azure?

ithkuil11mo ago

Isn't that what a rate limiter would address?

mkl11mo ago

Not when the traffic is coming from 10s of thousands of IP addresses, with very few requests from each one: https://drewdevault.com/2025/03/17/2025-03-17-Stop-externali...

rollcat11mo ago

It's called DDoS. DDoS is abusive.

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