Say someone does not like a person behind one of the small/medium sized apps
on app store (lets say 2-3 instances continously each day). For the sake of
argument, say that it is me, but it could just as easily apply to any of you
guys out there.
What will stop a person of ill intend to make
You're describing what's known as a denial of service attack. These attacks
could happen to any Website on any platform. On GAE you're more protected,
out of the box, than most other hosting solutions.
1. GAE automatically blocks IPs that it senses strange activity from. I've
encountered this on
I dont think you understand... The above specifically mentions - among other
things - that
1) there are no programatic apis to the blacklist
2) the mechanisms to limit costs for a small app under a attack are much
worse under the new billing system than under the old one...
hence:
-
I believe you will be able to cap your daily total instance hours. If you
use that and get DOSed, your app will continue to be responsive through the
attack, but you may end up losing service when you reach your quota near the
end of the billing day.
If you cap Active Instance (that's the
I believe you will be able to cap your daily total instance hours.
-- please tell me how to do this... currently there is only a setting to
control max *idle* instances. During dos they will *not* be idle...
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Say someone does not like a person behind one of the small/medium sized apps
on app store (lets say 2-3
