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> given their bot-prevention services are effectively mandatory in order to even keep any sort of larger interactive website running. This is bullshit, there a
by prvit 4y ago
> given their bot-prevention services are effectively mandatory in order to even keep any sort of larger interactive website running.
This is bullshit, there are a plenty of alternatives.
- marginalia_nu 4y agoSuch as...?
- prvit 4y agoOVH, Voxility, ddos-guard.net and many more. Shit, even tiny providers like BuyVM offer good enough DDoS protection.
- marginalia_nu 4y agoDDoS-protection is only part of it. You also need the ability to distinguish automated browsers from real ones, or you're going to have several full time jobs' worth of cleaning up spam comments from everything that even slightly resembles an input field.
- prvit 4y agoTestcookie handles this just fine, Voxility and DDoS-guard can both offer the browser bot detection reverse proxy too. Of course you could also just integrate a CAPTCHA service of your choice.