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Re:47% of all internet traffic came from bots in 2022 by qeternity on Sunday May 14, 2023 @02:28PM (#35940139)
I'm not really sure how you arrive at the conclusion that only serverless platforms result in costs? It's not just 40% of cpu or egress, it's 40% of database load, 40% of logging, 40% of APM/instrumentation.

40% is 40%. Maybe 40% of their cost isn't enough to warrant whatever time these efforts cost them, but for many people out there it will be.

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Re:47% of all internet traffic came from bots in 2022 by iancarroll on Monday May 15, 2023 @12:19AM (#35943848)
Sounds like the original commenter had a reasonable case, but I just don’t think it’s likely to save anything for small sites on traditional stacks.

If you are running on i.e. EC2 and RDS instances, you’re not saving anything by using 40% less of the CPU, unless you can actually downsize the instance as a result. Read-only traffic is also not that hard to scale out, but with forums etc, you can be stuck with some legacy systems for sure.

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