Good will does not feel like a good way to scale this. For a business that might be ok, but I’m highly unlikely to recommend to a business something I haven’t personally investigated, and I’m not writing cheques whose value is dependent on the good will of a startup.
I don’t understand why cloud providers will not accommodate this basic “prepay to X and allow me to use the credit” model.
>I don’t understand why cloud providers will not accommodate this basic “prepay to X and allow me to use the credit” model.
They actually do:
> You can configure fly.io apps with a max monthly budget, we'll suspend them when they hit that budget, and then re-enable them at the beginning of the next month.
From their Launch HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22616857
According to this they got rid of the feature at some point: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31391451
To be clear a bandwidth limit would be awesome! And the pricing may not be for everyone. However there is a large amount of leeway as evidenced by the community forum posts.