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I dunno, it's fairly easy to buy VMs with cryptocurrency now. And who's to say they aren't legitimate requests? Especially if it's HTTP, it may not look like a

• ThePhysicist 4y ago
  Most cloud providers react very fast to abuse, they do not have an interest in ruining the reputation of their subnets as that will make life difficult for all of their customers. So they won't ask nicely if your 10 million requests per hour to a single machine are really legitimate, they'll just shut down your account to protect their network.
  • serf 4y ago
    > So they won't ask nicely if your 10 million requests per hour to a single machine are really legitimate, they'll just shut down your account to protect their network. as someone who has had accounts locked down due to perfectly acceptable behavior and had to plead my case with various cloud providers : I concur, they act first and ask questions later.
  • Komodai 4y ago
    Some don't, especially not the ones mentioned in the original post :) Vultr, Linode and Digital Ocean are all absolutely terrible at dealing with abuse.