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Rate-Limit the API

Web & Deploy · pro · solved in-browser (no VM needed) · 3 tiered hints

Write /etc/nginx/conf.d/ratelimit.conf that declares a request-rate limit zone with limit_req_zone $binary_remote_addr zone=api:10m rate=5r/s; then, in a location /api/, applies it with limit_req zone=api burst=10 nodelay;. (Authored config, graded structurally — the engine isn't run here.)

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