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Webapp.io's money making part (which facilitates this) is a DevOps company (CI/CD, preview environments, etc) which is already hammered with that sort of thing
by colinchartier 4y ago
Webapp.io's money making part (which facilitates this) is a DevOps company (CI/CD, preview environments, etc) which is already hammered with that sort of thing - see this post (from when we were called LayerCI) discussed by TravisCI for context: https://blog.travis-ci.com/2021-10-20-mining https://blog.travis-ci.com/2021-10-20-mining
- resonious 4y agoBut this article says the solution was to require credit card for free use. The parent comment is noting that these guys are not doing that.
- Kiro 4y ago"These guys" are the same guys.
- Tostino 4y agoSo I think the question is: "what changed from your prior analysis?"
- sangnoir 4y ago[I am not parent poster] A new product launched. Abuse can be ignored in initial stages (indeed, it can be useful as a stress test and for boosting user numbers). Crypto miners and spammers become a problem when they are crowding out legit customers, at which point they'll be pruned, and new signups will require credit cards.
- mouse_ 4y agoSo what you're saying is, the first hit is free?