I’m doing my own dynamic dns, and I have my client machines (3 of 'em), phoning home once per hour, each of which triggers a DO DNS API call (update). Is this abusive?
I could increase the complexity on my side, and only update if my IPs have changed.
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I wish DO include in their answer the definition of abusing, in my case, I may call the DO API to create or delete droplets everyday to reduce the costs, (Elasticity), I have a Saas service.
Hey there! Updating a DNS record three times per hour should not cause any issues, are you receiving any errors or slow-down requests? Requests through the API are rate limited to 5,000 requests per hour and/or 250 requests per minute (5% of the hourly total).
For more details, you can review our docs here:
https://developers.digitalocean.com/documentation/v2/#rate-limit
https://developers.digitalocean.com/documentation/changelog/api-v2/add-burst-rate-limits/
If you have any other questions or seeing something weird, you can open a support ticket so we can take a closer look!
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