Comment by romwell
1 year ago
>Netlify and others are extremely transparent about the fact that there are no limits
Are they also transparent about the fact that they
1. Won't do anything about a DDoS, and
2. In case there's a DDoS (or some other unusual traffic spike), you'll only get notified waaaaay after the fact when you get the $100K bill, instead of getting a timely alert that would allow you to shut your site down to prevent getting extreme charges?
No and no.
It's a scam.
The primary purpose of these services is to be able to scale up and continue working under heavy load, shutting the site down when this occurs would defeat the entire purpose of the service. I would say that they are transparent about both of the things you have listed by virtue of being one of those scaling serverless hosting services.
How about letting the user decide whether they want to scale beyond a certain point or incur huge charges?
Not too mention: if the primary purpose of these services is to allow a DDoS and then charge the user for it — then, yup, you're guessing it right: it's a scam.
When their business model makes DDoS attacks profitable for them... They're not in the hosting business, they're in DDoS/extortion business.
there is a middle ground between “I missed the spotlight because the service went down” and “this bill has ruined my life”.
they could ask the user for their budget when they are setting up their account as a basic guardrail, or they could give you a call
The primary service of these starter accounts for single users is way different.