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User got a $104K bill from hosting provider(Netlify): “I thought it was a joke” (cybernews.com)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I am too. Is the agreement to charge per mb downloaded? Do they not have some sort of "turn it off if I hit this max?* feature?

I usually avoid hosting solutions like this just because of this shit. I wanna know how much I'll owe before the month starts even. Anything else feels like gambling.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Of course they do but they can make 104k if they don't turn it on.

There are plenty of bandwidth restricted hosting sites out there. Sounds like that is what you want. Maximum speed regardless if that's used 24/7 or not. If more users request your site than that bandwidth allows - oh well.