400 resource limit

[WhiteFang]

So,why is there a 400 resource limit per 24 hours?Please don't ask why the hell i downloaded that much

 

[Daffa]

Neo also encounter this very same limit in the past.

From what I recall, it's for Bandwidth protection, avoiding a certain user from taking too much site bandwidth. Anyway, I wonder how much Guests have as their limit.

 

[Chaosy]

I'd say it's to work around bots if anything. I can't really say that I agree with the limit though.

 

[Dr Super Good]

It is to stop one from bulk downloading the entire site. Where as for someone like myself on fibre-optic broadband this can be done in a few hours with no worry of bandwidth limits, for the server this would eat up a large chunk of its monthly upload bandwidth allocation. All it would take is a few users to do this at the start of the month and the server would be dead for >20 days or cost Ralle a lot. This was the thinking when it was first implemented when the server did have a upload limit, I am unsure if it still holds as the site might have moved servers with different contract schemes.

400 resources per 24 hours is higher than it used to be if I recall. The limit was a couple every hour or so.

 

[Ralle]

DSG got it.

 

[SA Dashie]

Afaik proxies could potentially reset the download count considering the new ip address the user will use.