Board:   [fsxNet] fsxNet Network Discussion
Subject: Re: Hub 3 rate limiting
From:    GRiM(21:3/234)
Date:    Thu Mar 26, 2026 09:25

On 26 Mar 2026, fusion said the following...

 fu> i didn't have much of an opinion of it originally (my first post wasn't
 fu> very long either) but now i think i'd personally optimize for allowing
 fu> that connection per minute user. strive for excellence.


Or maybe just respect the limits requested by the man who provides a FREE service for a very niche and dying technology to a small group of users. You're expecting him to do more work because of your *opinion*?  It's easier and cheaper to block these bad actors entirely.  Deon is being overly gracious with these limits in my opinion.

These echos do not get enough traffic to warrant polling once per minute - hard stop.  Crash delivery reduces the need to poll unless you've been offline for awhile.  There's no reason to poll more than once per hour.

Even the most scalable APIs have rate limits.  If you exceed the limits too frequently, you get blocked and eventually banned.

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