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Rate limiting websites is a lot of work. You have to figure out what kind of limits you should set, you have to figure out if that should be on an IP or a /24 or an ASN, if it's an ASN, you have to figure out how to turn an IP into an ASN.

If your website is pretty fast, you probably won't necessarily care about a lot of hits from one source, but if it's supposed to be a small website on inexpensive hosting, and all those hits add up to real transfer numbers, maybe it's an issue.



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