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Re:Netlify just sent me a $104K bill for a simple static site by notpushkin on Tuesday February 27, 2024 @05:27AM (#39522417)
> they don't trade bandwidth as a commodity

I really don't get your point. If you're a hosting provider, the very thing you're selling is bandwidth (and disk space). Everything else is a value added service.

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Re:Netlify just sent me a $104K bill for a simple static site by mrtksn on Tuesday February 27, 2024 @06:04AM (#39522637)
I disagree, they are not a colocation service that happens to rent servers. They are opinionated platform for deploying web applications in a specific way. The bandwidth happens to be a necessity to do that and also a useful metric for billing by usage.
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