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I wanted to share what happened overnight so people can have some idea of what to expect and come up with possible ways to handle it. I run a dedicated Ubuntu server, 64 cores with a ton of RAM on nginx, and we started getting hit by 100,000 requests per minute or more starting about 930 PM or so Central time US.. We are already behind Cloudflare and have their bot and scrape protection turned on. When I got a note from someone that the...

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