I'd like to be able to throttle login attempts based on failed attempts but I got some questions. Should I use MySQL? (read that it could strain the DB) Should I throttle per user and system-wide ...

A new game server just came out which our company would like to offer for rental. However, the game developers did not create any sort of hibernation mode to shut down the physics when no players a...

I have been writing a Google Chrome extension for Stack Exchange. It's a simple extension that allows you to keep track of your reputation and get notified of comments on Stack Exchange sites. Cur...

Is there anyway to prioritize or throttle a query at all in MySQL? I'm a DBA on a server that sees a lot of unoptimized queries come into the server and they just destroy the CPU. I'm looking at t...

What are common ways of implementing web API request throttling? Are there any libraries for common web frameworks (Rails, Django, Java, etc.) that give you this along with temporary banning? A re...

I am working on a class library that retrieves information from a third-party web site. The web site being accessed will stop responding if too many requests are made within a set time period (~0.5...

(This is in principal a language-agnostic question, though in my case I am using ASP.NET 3.5) I am using the standard ASP.NET login control and would like to implement the following failed login a...

I'm writing an application that will have multiple threads running, and want to throttle the CPU/memory usage of those threads. There is a similar question for C++, but I want to try and avoid usi...

I've got a backup application here which connects to various webservices and downloads/uploads files from ftp or http servers. What is the easiest way to limit the bandwidth usage of my application...

I have a Perl-based CGI/Fast CGI web service and want to rate-limit clients by IP address to stop aggressive clients causing too much work. I have looked around for some code and found Algorithm::...

Lets assume that I'm dealing with a service that involves sending large amounts of data. If I implement this with WCF, will WCF throttle the service based on how much memory each request takes to ...