ESP RainMaker Fair Usage Policy

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ESP RainMaker has found significant traction amongst the community and many people are using it for hobby, evaluation or educational purposes. RainMaker has been free and will always be free for such users. However, we have seen that some nodes are causing heavy traffic on our servers. To reduce such instances, we introduced a concept of budgeting which can cause messages to get dropped if they exceed a certain rate. Even then, some nodes are still sending heavy traffic. To prevent overburdening the servers, we will be de-activating nodes that are sending more than 25,000 messages in a day. If you see that your node is no more able to connect to the server, your node could be amongst the deactivated nodes.

Currently, we are not deactivating user accounts, but if we find that certain accounts are repeatedly violating these limits through multiple nodes, we may have to deactivate these accounts under our fair usage policy.

If anybody has any concerns regarding this, do let us know here or on the email address esp-rainmaker-admin@espressif.com