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It's not retaliation to revoke free access to your web resources. If I scrape some website, I could be IP banned at any time. That's just how it goes. It's on
by consteval 2y ago
It's not retaliation to revoke free access to your web resources.
If I scrape some website, I could be IP banned at any time. That's just how it goes.
It's one thing to use web resources on a small scale, as a user. It's another to milk them dry and practically DDOS their servers. That can, and will, get you banned. Open source or not.
- nijave 2y agoIt is if they get mad you sent a cease and desist.
- eli 2y agoOf course it's retaliation. Wordpress.org said as much in the announcement - they don't like WP Engine's business model, don't think they contribute enough upstream, etc. And therefore they cut off access to the wordpress.org update servers. Nothing about "practically DDOS" of the server.
- consteval 2y agoYes, retaliation for using web resources without paying. > wordpress.org update servers. Nothing about "practically DDOS" of the server Yes, when you have hundreds of thousands of users this is expensive. What you're describing is expensive. WPE doesn't maintain these servers, presumably because it's hard and expensive. You can't expect to hit someone's servers with, I'm guessing, hundreds of thousands of requests a day and not pay a dime. If you did that, you would be banned. From just about any free service.
- eli 2y agoWordpress.org wrote a whole public post about why they cut off WPE and their reasons are just what I said. I don't understand how you can so confidently assert that the real reason is something different.