Comment by karlshea

Sorry, this just isn’t true. Some clients just don’t have the resources to pay for a dev playing whack-a-mole against residential proxy bots that are basically indistinguishable from legit users, but en masse can take down a VPS.

Rate limiting doesn’t work when individual IPs are only making a handful of requests.

So that’s why we’re using CF/Fastly. Too bad, I’d prefer not to, but there is just not an alternative at this point.