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Re:Cloudflare mitigates record-breaking 71M request-per-seco... by fredoliveira on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @07:39AM (#34788472)
> If you wrote your website in some shitty language and you need lots of server power just to serve the home page you will end up saving a lot of money from blocking those countries.

At that point, might as well rethink the engineering happening at your company well before considering blocking countries' IP spaces, no?

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Re:Cloudflare mitigates record-breaking 71M request-per-seco... by aliqot on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @07:53AM (#34788590)
how dare you besmirch react on hn

edit: i'll say it again too, test me.

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Re:Cloudflare mitigates record-breaking 71M request-per-seco... by eru on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @08:43AM (#34789110)
You can do both.

As a cold business decision, just as it makes sense to fire customers who are more hassle than they are worth, it's also makes sense to block prospective customers who are more hassle than they are worth.

Of course, if you engineering is better, you can pick a different false-positive vs false negative trade-off.

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