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AI companies cause most of traffic on forums

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770 points ta988 | 5 comments | 30 Dec 24 14:37 UTC | HN request time: 0.879s | source
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joshdavham ◴[30 Dec 24 17:27 UTC] No.42551384[source]▶
I deployed a small dockerized app on GCP a couple months ago and these bots ended up costing me a ton of money for the stupidest reason: https://github.com/streamlit/streamlit/issues/9673

I originally shared my app on Reddit and I believe that that’s what caused the crazy amount of bot traffic.

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jdndbsndn ◴[30 Dec 24 18:01 UTC] No.42551774[source]▶
The linked issue talks about 1 req/s?

That seems really reasonable to me, how was this a problem for your application or caused significant cost?

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1. watermelon0 ◴[30 Dec 24 18:12 UTC] No.42551909[source]▶
That would still be 86k req/day, which can be quite expensive in a serverless environment, especially if the app is not optimized.
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2. Aeolun ◴[30 Dec 24 18:19 UTC] No.42551985[source]▶
That’s a problem of the serverless environment, not of not being a good netizen. Seriously, my toaster from 20 years ago could serve 1req/s
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3. joshdavham ◴[30 Dec 24 21:02 UTC] No.42553486[source]▶
What would you recommend I do instead? Deploying a Docker container on Cloud Run sorta seemed like the logical way to deploy my micro app.

Also for more context, this was the app in question (now moved to streamlit cloud): https://jreadability-demo.streamlit.app/

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4. ribadeo ◴[31 Dec 24 09:58 UTC] No.42557683{3}[source]▶
Skip all that jazz and write some php like it's 1998 and pay 5 bucks a month for Hostens or the equivalent... Well, that's the opposite costing side of the spectrum from serverless containerized dynamic lang runtime and a zillion paid services as a backend.
5. Saris ◴[02 Jan 25 14:34 UTC] No.42574739{3}[source]▶
Your standard web hosting services, or a cheap VPS are great options.

The whole 'cloud serverless buzzword-here' thing is ridiculous for most use cases.

Heck you can serve quite a few static req/s on a $2 ESP32 microcontroller.