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Re:Small SaaS banned by Cloudflare after 4 years of being pa... by twawaaay on Friday February 03, 2023 @07:06AM (#34640071)
I worked for a large bank, my internal backend would receive couple orders more requests from other internal apps and users and probably similar traffic.

It is very easy (relatively) to build a SaaS platform that serves this amount of traffic and this can be done by even a one determined individual or a small startup team.

I don't think it is useful to measure the size of the company in the amount of requests they are serving. Revenue/number of employees are much better measurements saying more about the type of things that are/can be happening. They may have relatively low margins per request and need to get to 4B to get by to pay for couple salaries?

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Re:Small SaaS banned by Cloudflare after 4 years of being pa... by rightbyte on Friday February 03, 2023 @07:34AM (#34640259)
Are you doing RAM-aaS or something?

Must be alot of redundant data back and forth.

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Re:Small SaaS banned by Cloudflare after 4 years of being pa... by twawaaay on Friday February 03, 2023 @08:33AM (#34640819)
I said nothing about the application and you already know everything about it.

Seems like I spent quarter of century in this business for naught.

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Re:Small SaaS banned by Cloudflare after 4 years of being pa... by rightbyte on Friday February 03, 2023 @03:13PM (#34647097)
There is a huge waste of power on the internet with data going back and forth for no good reason.

Obviously I have no clue about your work.

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Re:Small SaaS banned by Cloudflare after 4 years of being pa... by slackwaredragon on Friday February 03, 2023 @09:21AM (#34641312)
I've worked with several EMR (Electronic Medical Record) systems that communicate an absolute metric shit-ton of redundant data for no reason other than just because and bad programming habits. Banking and Healthcare thrive in redundant redundancy.
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