Comment by viraptor
6 hours ago
This is not how things work and no company providing online services for money would rate limit like that. This would do nothing for real world DDoS. You're in "not even wrong" territory.
And for large services implementing a CDN properly takes days/weeks of preparation. Once you're down it's way too late.
Yeah, of course if you're a large service, stuff that works for SMEs isn't gonna work for you...
If your problem is AI crawlers, then simple rate limits help, I've helped countless of businesses with this already. For the ones that it isn't enough, you continue adding more roadblocks. There is no "one size fits all here" and that you seemingly is under that belief, leads less credence to what you're saying, not more.