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User got a $104K bill from hosting provider(Netlify): “I thought it was a joke” (cybernews.com)
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[–] 45 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Not use a hosting provider that charges by the amount of traffic?

This appears to be an extreme edge case but overall there is nothing preventing you from waking up to such a huge bill if your site turns into the most popular page on the internet over night.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago*

    I didn't even think commercial host providers would do this.

    The only service I knew about that had limit to transferred amount of data was grex.org, a non-commercial public unix shell. It had limit of 10MB/day for your web page, but it also didn't allow stuff like images.
    However, that wasn't anything commercial. And I think before the shutdown it was just a single computer sitting in someone's basement.

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