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So basically we want to have cake and eat it too.

• ajmurmann 8y ago
  Or have it be adjustable within a reasonable time frame?
• paranoidrobot 8y ago
  This seems like an overly cynical/snarky response. It's not an unreasonable request that for services which advertise the ability to scale up and down on demand, that the billing and billing limits should also be able to respond similarly.
  • badlucklottery 8y ago
    >that the billing and billing limits should also be able to respond similarly How so? With a pay-as-you-go system, firing off warnings and giving a projection of their future costs (which is hard when startups tend to have spikey traffic) is about as good as you can do. Edit: I should add that the common solution to controlling your billing in situations like this is having some overflow path built into your beta app ("Sorry, we're not taking new users at the moment" or the like).
    • Dylan16807 8y ago
      The problem is that the user gets those alerts, tries to change the limit they set, and it doesn't work. That is definitely not as good as can be done.