• kescusay@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      At my company, we had to implement all sorts of WAF rules precisely for that reason. Those things are fucking aggressive.

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        Same. And just because page size is “low” doesn’t mean shit when they’re flooding requests. Try having public research data and watch how much your costs go up just due to load balancer throughput.

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          8 hours ago

          Literally free. So many tech illiterate people in this threat that still think website hosting costs money.

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            I disagree, someone has to pay for the internet, server and electricity to serve your supposedly “free” page. If you are talking about something like GitHub pages? Not really a solution if Microsoft, just…i dont know, got rid of freebies once they have you locked into hosting your content with them? Corpos would never ensure thay have you locked in as a consumer before turning the screws

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              There are thousands of alternatives to github pages that will host your content for free. Taking your static website to a different host literally takes 5 minutes. At the scale of Github or Netlify your 1gb/mo bandwidth blog website is a rounding error and well worth the potential conversion price. The ignorance in this thread is astounding.

              You can “disagree” all you want but reality is that information hosting made huge gains in the past 20 years to the point where the only cost to share a blog these days is the domain name. Even if you don’t want to feed the “free corporate machines” then you can easily host it for 5$/mo and if you can’t afford that I don’t know what to tell you.