Comment by emnudge
1 year ago
My previous understanding was that service would be stopped once you hit past the free tier.
Upon review, it does not look like this is the case. I have several very low traffic projects on which would have never been anywhere close to the free limit. However, if I get involved in a random spam attack, it seems I could be on the hook for several thousand dollars.
This is incredibly dangerous. Netlify is often used as a beginner friendly free tier for static hosting. Not as something that is cheap, but as something that is free. This is just an overall dangerous position to put people in.
It does say it's pay-as-you-go on their pricing page. However they probably should have a giant warning page for new users who don't know that this is how this kind of service works if they want to target the beginner web-dev market. As far as I know, no other similar service has this though.