Comment by joshdavham
19 days ago
I deployed a small dockerized app on GCP a couple months ago and these bots ended up costing me a ton of money for the stupidest reason: https://github.com/streamlit/streamlit/issues/9673
I originally shared my app on Reddit and I believe that that’s what caused the crazy amount of bot traffic.
The linked issue talks about 1 req/s?
That seems really reasonable to me, how was this a problem for your application or caused significant cost?
1 req/s being too much sounds crazy to me. A single VPS should be able to handle hundreds if not thousands of requests per second. For more compute intensive stuff I run them on a spare laptop and reverse proxy through tailscale to expose it
Wow that really works? So cool. I should bring my VMs back in house. Spare laptops I have.
That would still be 86k req/day, which can be quite expensive in a serverless environment, especially if the app is not optimized.
That’s a problem of the serverless environment, not of not being a good netizen. Seriously, my toaster from 20 years ago could serve 1req/s
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