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I might be out of touch with reality, but billions of requests per month sounds like peanuts. Is that considered a big ddos attack?
by mastermedo 3y ago
I might be out of touch with reality, but billions of requests per month sounds like peanuts. Is that considered a big ddos attack?
- drewdevault 3y agoIt depends on a lot of factors. Generally people provision infrastructure according to its expected usage, and to overprovision is wasteful.
- mastermedo 3y agoI see, that makes sense. And automatic provisioning can be costly in instances like ddosing.
- anonzzzies 3y agoDepends who is paying for that? Self hosted that’s not a problem, but ‘serverless’ that’s usually costly at those levels, especially for worthless traffic.
- heythere22 3y agoYour correct. 1 billion requests per month is 380 requests per second on average which is not that high
- fragmede 3y agoassuming they're smeared equally across the whole month, that is. Eg if the majority of those requests kick off a job at midnight on the first of the month, it's a bit more to deal with.
- logtempo 3y agoit's 2.3/second not 380
- avoid3d 3y agoHow are you arriving at that number? 60 seconds per minute 60 minutes per hour 24 hours per day 30 days per month ~2.59 million seconds per month One billion requests into 2.59 million seconds is 386 requests per second.
- grodriguez100 3y agoOr 386K requests per seconds, depending on where these billions are coming from :-)
- logtempo 3y agoho it's billion, my bad ahah
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- rezonant 3y agoSomething like 300-400 API requests per second is not a heavy load for any reasonably designed API. Something like 300-400 static files requests per seconds is less than peanuts.