Please Don’t Share Our Links on Mastodon: Here’s Why! | itsfoss.com (mastodon.social)

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[-] iltg@sh.itjust.works 24 points 6 months ago

thanks for saying this! i really don't want to victim blame itsfoss for getting traffic spikes but if you cant handle ~20MB in one minute (~400kbps) of traffic you're doing something really really wrong and you really should look into it, especially if you want to distribute content. crying "dont share our links on mastodon" also sounds like hunting windmills, block the mastodon UA and be done with it, or stop putting images in your link previews for mastodon, or drop link previews completely. a "100 mb DDOS" is laughable at best, nice amplification calculation but that's still 100 megs

[+] skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

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[-] chiisana@lemmy.chiisana.net 5 points 6 months ago

AWS charges $0.09/GB. Even assuming zero caching and always dynamically requested content, you’d need 100x this “attack” to rack up $1 in bandwidth fees. There are way faster ways to rack up bandwidth fees. I remember the days where I paid $1/GB of egress on overage, and even then, this 100MB would’ve only set me back $0.15 at worst.

Also worth noting that those who’d host on AWS isn’t going to blink at $1 in bandwidth fees; they’d be hosting else where that offers cheaper egress (I.e. billed by megabits or some generous fixed allocation); those that are more sane would be serving behind CDNs that’d be even cheaper.

This is a non-issue written by someone who clearly doesn’t know what they’re talking about, likely intended to drum up traffic to their site.