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Mojang rate-limit causing errors with UUID and Username resolution. #40

Closed nathantowell closed 8 years ago

nathantowell commented 8 years ago

Mojang's API rate-limit has been causing issues with our API due to some spiked usage. The current limit is about 600 requests every 10 minutes (Calculated per second which is 1 request/s)

Current solution: Add more nodes to the cloud. Downside: Although it is too expensive without any form of income.

Working on a address proxy system to help bypass the set limits (This will probably be just as costly since Mojang don't support IPv6 as of yet.). An alternative solution is to introduce a Freemium payment system with a limited free tier and a pay-per-request-per-second system.

I have thought about using Google Cloud Services or Amazon Cloud Services as another option since the requests would/could be sent from different addresses from the cloud. Although this would purely be random and there would be no way to manage when the address changes.

28andrew commented 8 years ago

Thanks for this. I was debugging like crazy trying to figure out why my server threw out 2GB in stacktraces. I tracked it down this API.

njb-said commented 8 years ago

Unfortunately we have deprecated our UUID, Name and History APIs, therefore I'm going to close this issue. :unamused: For more information about this please visit mc-api.net/update-v4.

If you need any more help please let me know on here or on our discord.