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I feel like cloud vendors overcharging for things they have the right to charge you are like a car mechanic that tells you you have to pay him a billion dollar
by rpigab 3y ago
I feel like cloud vendors overcharging for things they have the right to charge you are like a car mechanic that tells you you have to pay him a billion dollar for a routine maintenance check of your car because when he was fixing some small item, it broke and he had to get another one and put in in place, but then it broke for the same reason (that is not the mechanic's fault or the item constructor's), so he kept doing that on an infinite loop but after 2 weeks of him doing that without sending you any info, you went to the garage to check on him and told him to stop, so he stops and bills you for 999999999 items that are broken.
As a small user and not a large organisation, I'll never be able to read the full documentation on throttling every nook and cranny, I want to set a fixed spending limit that if reached, will kill the whole thing, even lose data if it must. But they won't do that because it hurts their bottom line if people are careful with budgets, and sometimes it's tricky to compute billing ahead of time.
- throwaway11460 3y agoWell there are differences. The mechanic from your example caused the situation. Netlify didn't and it might be hard to distinguish between unwanted traffic and a SaaS having overnight success. A more accurate allegory would be if you told the mechanic to do whatever anyone who knows the registration plate asked, and he did so.