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> they started charging 10x more after reading our git commits I’ll bite. What does this mean?

• ksajadi 5y ago
  Since a lot of their customers share passwords or only use git automation to deploy without logging in, as they charge by team members, they've started to count git committers as "team members" which blows my mind: even if you can justify some sort of "cost" associated with having a team member, I can't fathom why you would charge by the git committer, except for jacking up your revenue in preparation for a sales or the next VC round or some non-customer related matter.
  • freedomben 5y ago
    wow, dang. So one time committers cost you the same as a daily committer? Sounds like they're discouraging open source models (even internal open source where people on different teams can contribute PRs). That would really suck for us.
• foxbarrington 5y ago
  We have a large team of devs who didn't have Netlify accounts. They couldn't log in to see build logs, change configs, or anything else. Aside from seeing the deploy preview URLs, they wouldn't even know that we used Netlify to deploy our static sites. We were paying ~$120/mo for three accounts for managers, bandwidth, and extra build minutes. Then we get an email saying that because we have 20 devs who commit to our private repo of the site we deploy, we need to pay for 20 member accounts. Each member account is $99/mo. So, because they started reading our git commits to count authors, our monthly bill was going to go from $120 to over $2,000 (way more than what we pay for all of Google Cloud).