> It's OK, but you won't see a ton of benefit unless you have a very large amount of traffic
Our traffic patterns are such that per active-user we would add 100K requests per month when we go live. We send metrics out batched every 10s or so, but stumbled upon this post that warns of internal limit on total number of requests originating from Workers per second set at 2000, account-wide [0].
Is there a way to discuss our usecase and get whitelisted for limits as our traffic isn't malicious, hopefully without having to subscribe to the enterprise plan? I raised a support-ticket but a bot replied that since we are "free customers" it hasn't be been looked at.
> limit on total number of requests originating from Workers per second set at 2000, account-wide [0].
Oh, there is no such limit.
The post you link to is quoting another poster who is quoting something they heard from someone else. It sounds like something that may have originated with someone hearing about a particular implementation detail of our anti-abuse systems but the game of telephone has transformed it into something that's just not true at all.
As described in my comment on that thread, we do have certain anti-abuse heuristics which might result in a 1015 error. It's very unusual for people to hit these in legitimate use. Have you seen such an error? 100k requests per user per month doesn't sound like it would come anywhere near being an issue (even with 10M users).
FWIW the heuristics are designed such that simply adding more users (who behave the same as existing users) shouldn't ever cause a problem.
> 100k requests per user per month doesn't sound like it would come anywhere near being an issue (even with 10M users).
Nice. Thanks! That's re-assuring.
> It sounds like something that may have originated with someone hearing about a particular implementation detail of our anti-abuse systems but the game of telephone has transformed it into something that's just not true at all.
A Cloudflare employee engaged in this thread [0] confirmed existence of this internal limit: "...basically 2k subrequests _per minute_ per colo / zone / IP. Once you hit that you start serving 429s.", which another customer hit with ~5M requests per day (per a screenshot shared later in the thread) and had to get whitelisted for.
Our traffic patterns are such that per active-user we would add 100K requests per month when we go live. We send metrics out batched every 10s or so, but stumbled upon this post that warns of internal limit on total number of requests originating from Workers per second set at 2000, account-wide [0].
Is there a way to discuss our usecase and get whitelisted for limits as our traffic isn't malicious, hopefully without having to subscribe to the enterprise plan? I raised a support-ticket but a bot replied that since we are "free customers" it hasn't be been looked at.
[0] https://community.cloudflare.com/t/workers-and-sub-requests/...