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> 100k requests per user per month doesn't sound like it would come anywhere near being an issue (even with 10M users). Nice. Thanks! That's re-assuring. > It
by ignoramous 6y ago
> 100k requests per user per month doesn't sound like it would come anywhere near being an issue (even with 10M users).
Nice. Thanks! That's re-assuring.
> It sounds like something that may have originated with someone hearing about a particular implementation detail of our anti-abuse systems but the game of telephone has transformed it into something that's just not true at all.
A Cloudflare employee engaged in this thread [0] confirmed existence of this internal limit: "...basically 2k subrequests _per minute_ per colo / zone / IP. Once you hit that you start serving 429s.", which another customer hit with ~5M requests per day (per a screenshot shared later in the thread) and had to get whitelisted for.
[0] https://community.cloudflare.com/t/massive-rate-limiting-issues-with-worker-in-production/128287/10 https://community.cloudflare.com/t/massive-rate-limiting-iss...