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My concern (for non-paying or low-paying side projects) is not so much the difference between $5 and $10 for monthly hosting - that's like the difference betwee
by danjac 4y ago
My concern (for non-paying or low-paying side projects) is not so much the difference between $5 and $10 for monthly hosting - that's like the difference between one or two cups of coffee - but what safeguards are in place to prevent me from inadvertently exceeding an expected amount due to a high traffic spike, misconfigured cloud function or whatever.
So I don't really care if one service costs x2 if the difference is between 5 and 10, but I care a lot if I could accidentally end up with a $2000 bill one day (and warnings don't count - not much good if I get a warning if I'm away from my laptop in a log cabin or something).
- margorczynski 4y agoI guess that's the modus operandi of the Cloud providers - fake your concern by an useless warning and hope that no one will react before they'll rake up the bill. That's why I stay away from e.g. AWS for side projects, too many histories of a stupid mistake that costed quite a bit of money when all that is needed is some breaker if usage is exceeded beyond a point.