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Are you not tempted to just block the requests from these devices, and let the manufacturer take the loss? I imagine serving all those requests is costing real
by Thiez 6y ago
Are you not tempted to just block the requests from these devices, and let the manufacturer take the loss? I imagine serving all those requests is costing real money.
- jgrahamc 6y agoIt's not a TOS violation. It did cause us some ops pain at one point (they were getting hit with > 50,000rps concentrated in certain locations). But one of the reasons Cloudflare can operate our service is we have 3.2 million customers who are doing all sorts of stuff. We get so much stronger from that great variety of traffic.
- pests 6y agoRight. I'm sure you can explain more but I've read due to peering agreements and the like having a lot of one-directional traffic can be a good thing.