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Re:Ask HN: Cheapest/easiest way to host a static site? by mtlynch on Friday March 26, 2021 @10:06PM (#26599215)
You don't mean literally distributed denial of service attack, right? It's super easy to keep serving a static resource, so I think you'd need a huge amount of traffic to put a dent in Firebase's static hosting capacity.

I've had spikes of up to 300k visitors to my Firebase blog in a month, and the bill was like $150. It seems hard to get bitten by huge surprise costs from a blog on Firebase static hosting, even if someone's using a botnet to try to drive up your bill.

Edit: Thinking about it a little more, I guess you could find the largest resource on a blog and direct your botnet to download it nonstop repeatedly, and that would be orders of magnitude more expensive than even large organic traffic.

Re:Ask HN: Cheapest/easiest way to host a static site? by dkarras on Saturday March 27, 2021 @04:59AM (#26600993)
That is... $150 you definitely didn't have to spend.
Re:Ask HN: Cheapest/easiest way to host a static site? by BrandoElFollito on Saturday March 27, 2021 @03:47AM (#26600713)
> so I think you'd need a huge amount of traffic to put a dent in Firebase's static hosting capacity.

No, I was referring to your bill, when your resource usage spikes (really spikes, as in sustained Gbps+ traffic spikes). Many people were taken aback by the unexpected bills.