Hi, For my purposes IP address is an acceptable definition of a user. In any case I would use the commercial subscription if it would help with this problem. Rate limiting doesn't help because I don't know ahead of time whether a user will make many fast requests, or fewer slow requests - and in fact a user might make a mix of fast and slow requests, so rate limiting wouldn't be effective atby ChrisAha - Nginx Mailing List - English
I am using nginx as a reverse proxy to a Ruby on Rails application using the unicorn server on multiple load-balanced application servers. This configuration allows many HTTP requests to be serviced in parallel. I'll call the total number of parallel requests that can be serviced 'P', which is the same as the number of unicorn processes running on the application servers. I have many users acceby ChrisAha - Nginx Mailing List - English