The WAMP performance issue had escaped our notice because bandwidth was less expensive before the DoS protections were implemented. Almost 60Mbps of WAMP data was being sent, but most of it was to a few IP addresses. We didn't think it was fair for a few people to degrade the performance of everyone else so significantly, so we are making a few changes that we estimate will reduce data transmission by about 95%.
- We will send out "diffs" instead of repeating all the data in some cases. This change won't affect API implementations, but will cut out repetitive data that doesn't change very often.
- We limited the maximum number of connections to the WAMP server from each IP address. Remember, pressing F5 20 times causes the system to respond slower, not faster.
- We limited the bandwidth available to the WAMP server from each IP address, to account for malfunctioning bots that make too many subscriptions and calls.