← Back to context Comment by oceanbreeze83 8 years ago doesn't this incur large bandwidth data charges for the defender? 4 comments oceanbreeze83 Reply zspitzer 8 years ago no, it's just sending a tiny zip file, decompression occurs at the other end chamakits 8 years ago 10 MB (the compressed GZIP given in the example) can be considerable. Even more so if you consider just how frequently bots are hitting those wp endpoints. toomuchtodo 8 years ago Non-cloud providers don't rake you over the coals for transfer. DamnInteresting 8 years ago The author's 10MB example is far from optimized. From the article:> As 42.zip shows us it can compress a 4.5 peta byte (4.500.000 giga bytes) file down to 42 kilo bytes.
zspitzer 8 years ago no, it's just sending a tiny zip file, decompression occurs at the other end chamakits 8 years ago 10 MB (the compressed GZIP given in the example) can be considerable. Even more so if you consider just how frequently bots are hitting those wp endpoints. toomuchtodo 8 years ago Non-cloud providers don't rake you over the coals for transfer. DamnInteresting 8 years ago The author's 10MB example is far from optimized. From the article:> As 42.zip shows us it can compress a 4.5 peta byte (4.500.000 giga bytes) file down to 42 kilo bytes.
chamakits 8 years ago 10 MB (the compressed GZIP given in the example) can be considerable. Even more so if you consider just how frequently bots are hitting those wp endpoints. toomuchtodo 8 years ago Non-cloud providers don't rake you over the coals for transfer. DamnInteresting 8 years ago The author's 10MB example is far from optimized. From the article:> As 42.zip shows us it can compress a 4.5 peta byte (4.500.000 giga bytes) file down to 42 kilo bytes.
DamnInteresting 8 years ago The author's 10MB example is far from optimized. From the article:> As 42.zip shows us it can compress a 4.5 peta byte (4.500.000 giga bytes) file down to 42 kilo bytes.
no, it's just sending a tiny zip file, decompression occurs at the other end
10 MB (the compressed GZIP given in the example) can be considerable. Even more so if you consider just how frequently bots are hitting those wp endpoints.
Non-cloud providers don't rake you over the coals for transfer.
The author's 10MB example is far from optimized. From the article:
> As 42.zip shows us it can compress a 4.5 peta byte (4.500.000 giga bytes) file down to 42 kilo bytes.