Google’s spiders will punish you for giving them too many 429 responses. It’s hell for hosting sites with vanity urls. They can’t tell they’re sending you 50+ req/s.

It’s practically a protection racket. Only AWS gets the money.

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wbl 10 months ago | parent [-]

50 requests/sec? Did you forget a few zeros?

	▲	hinkley 10 months ago \| parent [-]
		Little’s law is a bitch, and you can get away with a little throttling but not much. Also, that’s a bit dismissive for HN.