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I guess you could simply rate-limit your login/signup if your not worried about a DoS and just want to keep people from brute-forcing a password. On the other
by Xeoncross 9y ago
I guess you could simply rate-limit your login/signup if your not worried about a DoS and just want to keep people from brute-forcing a password.
On the other hand, it's not simply "a performance optimization" as there is no way for node to handle a DDoS without crazy amounts of hardware relative to what iptables|nginx can handle.
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- always_good 9y agoYou're the one talking about DoS. Notice how "rate-limiting" is a much more generic concept. For example, Hacker News rate-limits the amount of posts you can make in a window of time. That's not because they think you're trying to DoS them.