# Questioning three million requests in a day

*19 September 2026 · Infrastructure, Performance, Networking*

I am reviewing 3M requests from yesterday. The crawling frequency may be excessive, or the network calls could be unoptimised. This figure seems too high to be accurate.

> The custom Rust server handled 3 million requests yesterday from one project. This month exceeds 12 million. At this rate, it could outperform Cloudflare Workers pricing.
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> Pricing the worker at $0.30 per million yields $3.6. One write per request costs $1 per million, or $12. The total is $15.6, excluding CPU use, SQLite storage, and read counts.
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> This outcome is exciting, and I want to know precisely how much I am saving. I will keep you updated.
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> — [@mohitdotdev](https://x.com/mohitdotdev)

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