[colinchartier]

Webapp.io's money making part (which facilitates this) is a DevOps company (CI/CD, preview environments, etc) which is already hammered with that sort of thing - see this post (from when we were called LayerCI) discussed by TravisCI for context: https://blog.travis-ci.com/2021-10-20-mining

[resonious]

But this article says the solution was to require credit card for free use. The parent comment is noting that these guys are not doing that.

[Kiro]

"These guys" are the same guys.

[Tostino]

So I think the question is: "what changed from your prior analysis?"

[sangnoir]

[I am not parent poster] A new product launched. Abuse can be ignored in initial stages (indeed, it can be useful as a stress test and for boosting user numbers).

Crypto miners and spammers become a problem when they are crowding out legit customers, at which point they'll be pruned, and new signups will require credit cards.

[mouse_]

So what you're saying is, the first hit is free?