Rate Limiting: Configure NGINX to limit request rates to prevent bots from overwhelming our server with automated scans.

[pwdel]

Tree off of...

https://github.com/orgs/openpredictionmarkets/projects/7/views/2?pane=issue&itemId=85288201&issue=openpredictionmarkets%7Csocialpredict%7C379

Basically, we could put a rate limiter in NGINX to prevent this.

That being said, we would need to set a documented policy, e.g. a certain number of milliseconds limit that WOULD be allowed under an API policy, or have a way to allow API requests to have their own rate limit policy if that would be too restrictive.