There are some sick people out there. Shortly after I made this cast, I believe someone launched a ddos attack or something similar on my frame in an attempt to skyrocket my vercel bill. My normal usage was around 40k-100k invocations per day. This spiked to 1.5 million within a few hours. My duration usage is normally 20-60 gb hours per day and that spiked to over 2400 gb hours. 

I’ve suspended my frames temporarily until I figure this out. They managed to take my bill from the normal $20 a month to $300. I created a case with vercel to hopefully waive the fees from the obvious attack. If I do end up having to pay it, I won’t be using my moxie gains to do so. 

Some people really hate to see others do well.

After waiting 2 weeks with some back and forth with Vercel, they are giving me a $100 credit towards the $282 bill. Sucks but better than nothing. So my monthly bill will be $200 instead of the normal $20. The billing cycle ends the 27th so I'll be able to unpause my frames after that.

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small victory, kind of garbage but at least you prompted you to set up the proper safeguards moving forward.

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Yeah I’m putting a spend limit that will automatically pause my frames and I’m looking at how to add some rate limiting

Well that’s a bummer. I thought they would do better than that. Are there ways to protect against future bot attacks?

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Did you ever figure out who was spamming you?

Can you redeploy to a new account?
And setup all the measures 

Hope everything goes well from now on!
200 $degen will help you

better than nothing. you'll be back in no time 💪🏽

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What would creating a new account do? I still have to pay the bill

Won't it be better you create a new account ? 

Then introduce rate limiting of some sort to your endpoints

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Oh fuck sad story bro so sorry for this😭🖤🫂
Sending some onchain help for a real one✨
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Better than nothing ig, still sucks tho 🍖x333

Unfortunate position to be in but better than nothing

That's the reality, everybody wants to make money 🤷‍♂️

I’m glad even a little has come back to you. 🥲

From a technical perspective, for example, would it be difficult to counteract this kind of malicious attack using Vercel’s features?

So sorry you have to go through this fam ❤️

Damn, so sorry you had to go through that

Completely understand. Something is better than nothing it seems

Fucking ridiculous bro 
I’m sorry this happened man 
Fuck them

maybe a little late but this could be good going forward!

You're paying Vercel extra for rate limiting? 🤦‍♂️

5 lines of nginx = free API protection

No external services
No dependencies
No surprises

Protect your users without the premium pricing

Self-host confidently ✅ https://t.co/3Vz0po6SYu

Useful nginx example for any @ar_io_network operators looking to protect (or restrict) their gateway from heavy client traffic that could impact indexing performance.

maybe a little late but this could be good going forward! https://x.com/iamdtfiedler/status/1852019586725503375

Nice move you made you will be back better