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User got a $104K bill from hosting provider(Netlify): “I thought it was a joke” (cybernews.com)
submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 45 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Not use a hosting provider that charges by the amount of traffic?

This appears to be an extreme edge case but overall there is nothing preventing you from waking up to such a huge bill if your site turns into the most popular page on the internet over night.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I didn't even think commercial host providers would do this.

The only service I knew about that had limit to transferred amount of data was grex.org, a non-commercial public unix shell. It had limit of 10MB/day for your web page, but it also didn't allow stuff like images.
However, that wasn't anything commercial. And I think before the shutdown it was just a single computer sitting in someone's basement.