Re:I got pwned by my cloud costs
by Grollicus on Monday January 24, 2022 @03:38AM
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Do you have any substance to your allegation of Microsoft hiding behind their pricing model?
This is very straight forward from their view, before: almost no traffic = almost no costs, now: huge traffic = $$$.
On the other hand, it doesn't seem that Troy did try to talk to them about this and seems to want to eat the costs himself. As it was his mistake. I think that's commendable. I also think with the amount of free advertisement Troy has done for them they'd be open to this and I can imagine we might see a followup post like "MS was so nice they waived my costs".
Re:I got pwned by my cloud costs
by mdoms on Monday January 24, 2022 @01:47PM
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He's also independently very wealthy. Dude drives a GT-R and AMG C-Class (as at 2017, probably upgraded by now). He got a generous payout when he was laid off from Pfizer.
This is very straight forward from their view, before: almost no traffic = almost no costs, now: huge traffic = $$$.
On the other hand, it doesn't seem that Troy did try to talk to them about this and seems to want to eat the costs himself. As it was his mistake. I think that's commendable. I also think with the amount of free advertisement Troy has done for them they'd be open to this and I can imagine we might see a followup post like "MS was so nice they waived my costs".