this post was submitted on 09 Jul 2023
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Yes but you presumably had to go through a captcha to make each one, whereas here someone can spin up an instance and 'create' 1 million accounts immediately.
This gives me an idea;
Don't store incoming data from remote instances into the "Main DB" immediately. Store them into SUBORDINATE DATABASES!
The logic of how you arrange these subordinate databases should be simple; depending on which instance you're communicating with you could select a subordinate database like so;