Re:Ask HN: Cheapest/easiest way to host a static site?
by dkarras on Saturday March 27, 2021 @04:59AM
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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
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> 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.
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.