i fully understand what you saying, you mean the flood of requests cannot damage the data on the server !!
ok, sounds well but what am gonna do with a server not affected if somebody can shutdown my website for 10 minutes 5 times a day with a small piece of software ?
what i need to know here, what is the best method to have all these requests without having 429 page ? i just wanna keep the website running smoothly under this scenario.
because the users cares about no protected server but about getting to the website and see the content.