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# Hobby Plan Paused due to a attacker(s) making millions of requests per second to my project

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Metaphysics0 (@metaphysics0) · 2024-08-08

Hello amazing humans at Vercel,
I have a website that was actively used by a few hundred people a day, https://www.songsterr-downloader.com/

You can see the dedicated community this project had on reddit / github by searching Songsterr Downloader. (Also #1 on google)

Today i woke up to many complaints from my users stating that the website is down, and looking at my web analytics, i saw that a user from germany was making 300K+ requests per day

I have since enabled 'i am under attack' mode via the firewall pane, but is there anything I can the support team can do to enable the website again?
Thanks


Pauline P. Narvas (@pawlean) · 2024-08-08 · ♥ 1

Hi, @metaphysics0!

Sorry to hear about this. Could you raise a support case under "usage" over at https://vercel.com/help? 

Let me know if we can help with anything else!


Versecafe (@versecafe) · 2024-08-08 · ♥ 2

temporary quick fix is throwing up block all german traffic, not a perfect solution but works if you need something up immediately while awaiting proper support on firewall policies