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What does your ideal git host do when one of its (non-paying) clients uses bots to clones repos so hard that its (paying) human clients are unable to clone thei

• counttheforks 4y ago
  Improve infrastructure. Apparently they are trivially DDOSable by anyone renting a few servers and running git clone in a loop? That's a problem they should solve. And no, blocking by user agent is not adequate protection.
  • Arnavion 4y ago
    Infrastructure costs. So you'd be willing to pay more for that?
    • counttheforks 4y ago
      I already pay for GitHub, am fine with that and they manage. So yes.
      • lmas 4y ago
        You're not paying for the traffic load though, Microsoft does. I think it's unfair to compare a forge run by a giant and one run by a tiny company, or for that matter, self hosting users.