Can you throttle the speed of a volume/user?

[jesterr0]

Is there any sort of throttle for a specific volume/user?

[9001]

no; this is not (currently) possible because adding such a feature would most likely have a performance impact on all users. It is possible it could be added so that the performance impact would only appear if that feature is enabled, and not impact every user of copyparty regardless, but either way it is not a priority

[jesterr0]

Thanks for the response! I fully understand that. I can easily limit it globally for now in my reverse proxy. For anyone else that needs to know how to do this with nginix utilize limit_rate (this is via Swag).

## Version 2026/01/06
# make sure that your copyparty container is named copyparty
# make sure that your dns has a cname set for copyparty

server {
    listen 443 ssl;
#    listen 443 quic;
    listen [::]:443 ssl;
#    listen [::]:443 quic;

    server_name copyparty.*;

    include /config/nginx/ssl.conf;

    client_max_body_size 0;

    # enable for ldap auth (requires ldap-location.conf in the location block)
    #include /config/nginx/ldap-server.conf;

    # enable for Authelia (requires authelia-location.conf in the location block)
    #include /config/nginx/authelia-server.conf;

    # enable for Authentik (requires authentik-location.conf in the location block)
    #include /config/nginx/authentik-server.conf;

    # enable for Tinyauth (requires tinyauth-location.conf in the location block)
    #include /config/nginx/tinyauth-server.conf;

    location / {
        # limit rate speed for copyparty
        limit_rate 50m;
    
        # enable the next two lines for http auth
        #auth_basic "Restricted";
        #auth_basic_user_file /config/nginx/.htpasswd;

        # enable for ldap auth (requires ldap-server.conf in the server block)
        #include /config/nginx/ldap-location.conf;

        # enable for Authelia (requires authelia-server.conf in the server block)
        #include /config/nginx/authelia-location.conf;

        # enable for Authentik (requires authentik-server.conf in the server block)
        #include /config/nginx/authentik-location.conf;

        # enable for Tinyauth (requires tinyauth-server.conf in the server block)
        #include /config/nginx/tinyauth-location.conf;

        include /config/nginx/proxy.conf;
        include /config/nginx/resolver.conf;
        set $upstream_app copyparty;
        set $upstream_port 3923;
        set $upstream_proto http;
        proxy_pass $upstream_proto://$upstream_app:$upstream_port;

    }

}

[jesterr0]

If anyone is looking for a more configurable setup (again this is with Swag) here is an example of limited external speed vs internal.

## Version 2026/01/06
# make sure that your copyparty container is named copyparty
# make sure that your dns has a cname set for copyparty

geo $is_whitelist {
    default         0;
    10.0.0.0/8      1;
    172.18.0.0/16   1;
    192.168.0.0/16  1;
}

map $is_whitelist $copyparty_rate {
    1 0;
    0 50m;
}

server {
    listen 443 ssl;
#    listen 443 quic;
    listen [::]:443 ssl;
#    listen [::]:443 quic;

    server_name copyparty.*;

    include /config/nginx/ssl.conf;

    client_max_body_size 0;

    # enable for ldap auth (requires ldap-location.conf in the location block)
    #include /config/nginx/ldap-server.conf;

    # enable for Authelia (requires authelia-location.conf in the location block)
    #include /config/nginx/authelia-server.conf;

    # enable for Authentik (requires authentik-location.conf in the location block)
    #include /config/nginx/authentik-server.conf;

    # enable for Tinyauth (requires tinyauth-location.conf in the location block)
    #include /config/nginx/tinyauth-server.conf;

    location / {
        # limit rate speed for copyparty
        limit_rate $copyparty_rate;
    
        # enable the next two lines for http auth
        #auth_basic "Restricted";
        #auth_basic_user_file /config/nginx/.htpasswd;

        # enable for ldap auth (requires ldap-server.conf in the server block)
        #include /config/nginx/ldap-location.conf;

        # enable for Authelia (requires authelia-server.conf in the server block)
        #include /config/nginx/authelia-location.conf;

        # enable for Authentik (requires authentik-server.conf in the server block)
        #include /config/nginx/authentik-location.conf;

        # enable for Tinyauth (requires tinyauth-server.conf in the server block)
        #include /config/nginx/tinyauth-location.conf;

        include /config/nginx/proxy.conf;
        include /config/nginx/resolver.conf;
        set $upstream_app copyparty;
        set $upstream_port 3923;
        set $upstream_proto http;
        proxy_pass $upstream_proto://$upstream_app:$upstream_port;

    }

}