How do I protect myself from assholes?
What are your best resources and checklists on abuse prevention? Please share...
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I tend to just ignore them, but maybe you can give a bit more context?
in this particular case, users using scripts to run searches blew out my disk I/O quota
Oh, I thought you were talking about other people in the workplace or something.
Maybe you can throw up some kind of rate limiting protection using CloudFlare?
https://developers.cloudflare.com/waf/rate-limiting-rules/
Cloudflare Docs
Rate limiting rules · Cloudflare Web Application Firewall (WAF) docs
Rate limiting rules allow you to define rate limits for requests matching an expression, and the action to perform when those rate limits are reached.
Theo has a sponsor called Upstash that also provides really easy rate limiting. Using it in a few projects now! (I'm not sposored)
https://upstash.com/docs/oss/sdks/ts/ratelimit/overview
Upstash Documentation
Overview - Upstash Documentation
thank you both