Hi, Christopher Baines <m...@cbaines.net> skribis:
>> Florian raised an important issue regarding the possibility of denial of >> service. Ideas on how to mitigate that, either in the Data Service, or >> nginx at guix.gnu.org? > > On this point specifically, I've used the rate limiting functionality in > NGinx before, and that's probably a low cost approach to guarding > against this. It's not going to stop a DDOS, but might help avoid lots > of requests from one IP address causing load issues. Sounds good, we can take that route. On berlin we’ll have to keep using nginx I guess (there’s too much config in there), but perhaps Varnish is an option for the Data Service. Ludo’.
