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Re:Netlify just sent me a $104K bill for a simple static site by danogentili on Tuesday February 27, 2024 @03:27AM (#39521543)
I believe it's quite the opposite, cloud has normalized absurdly high traffic fees, and that is what should be raising alarm bells.
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Re:Netlify just sent me a $104K bill for a simple static site by rnts08 on Tuesday February 27, 2024 @05:43AM (#39522502)
Yes, cloud services have inflated both bandwidth and amortized hardware costs to absurd levels. You pay for not having to know what to do in order to run something online. Until it breaks.
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Re:Netlify just sent me a $104K bill for a simple static site by fernandotakai on Tuesday February 27, 2024 @05:50AM (#39522545)
cloudflare has a blogpost that kind of explains a bit on cost of bandwidth https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-relative-cost-of-bandwidth-a...

(from 2014, so it might be super outdated)

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