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26 Jun, 2026, 01:46

Hi team 👋

My project has been automatically blocked with the message: "Project is currently blocked — Access to this project is restricted. Contact support if the issue persists."

Project ID: 69fa56560037c7843a85 Region: Frankfurt (fra)

What happened: I was running load/performance testing on my own project to check how many concurrent users it can handle. I ran it from a single IP, which generated roughly 9,000 function executions in ~90 seconds. I now understand that concentrated single-IP traffic looks like abuse to your protection system, which is what triggered the block.

This was not malicious — it was capacity testing on my own project, and I've completely stopped all testing now. No further requests are being sent.

Request: Could you please remove the abuse block / restore access to the project? This is a production app with real users (an educational platform), so it's currently down for them.

Going forward I'll only load-test from a separate staging project / use a distributed load service so this doesn't happen again.

Thank you 🙏 <@743532656767270934> <@185460546336718859> <@870607367597850624>

TL;DR
Project was blocked after load testing due to concentrated single-IP traffic being flagged as abuse. User advised not to conduct such tests on production instances and to explore alternative methods like self-hosted instances for load testing. Support team requested contact via dedicated ticket system for further investigation and resolution.
26 Jun, 2026, 02:38

please communicate via a dedicated support ticket, not via discord threads. team will investigate and take action as needed

26 Jun, 2026, 02:40

What happened: I was running load/performance testing on my own project to check how many concurrent users it can handle. I ran it from a single IP, which generated roughly 9,000 function executions in ~90 seconds. I now understand that concentrated single-IP traffic looks like abuse to your protection system, which is what triggered the block.

this is not something we recommend doing on the production instance. its an abuse of the platform especially via education plan as the platform needs to pay for the resources used. there are many other ways to do this, like self hosted instance, using dev keys but for specific scenarios (not load testing)

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