Comment by nindalf
1 year ago
Since the author has gone viral I expect some netlify exec is going to take over and write this bill off to $0. In the words of Kramer “these big companies, they just write it off!”
A moment of silence for the people who got DDoS-ed, didn’t go viral and still had to pay $5k.
The very fact that you expect that making front page of hn will make them cancel that bill means that it will soon be over.
These kind of stories (alongside cancelled accounts) repeat over and over again and will soon become so not newsworthy that they will either not end up in front page, nor people will check on the eventual outcome which means these companies will get away with not moving a finger.
Nah. I think the dev community has long memory. Events like this is damaging for years. Whenever Netlify is mentioned, someone will inevitably point to this thread for a few years.
Thanks.
When I received a message from the bank saying my account was in the red I discovered that AWS had been billing me 1100 / month for 5 months before I even noticed. It was for something I'd set up one night while bored and then forgot about it. They drained my account :( Even had the nerve to say I had to pay for premium support only to get a "lol, pay" response.
You don't even know what a write-off is.
For those who don't get the reference: https://twitter.com/JayBauman1/status/1665024103282012161/vi...
I believe the proper response should have been "Do you?"
But they do. And they’re the ones writing it off.
Neither did Kramer :D
Do you?
If you bend over and pay in such circumstances, you are part of the problem. Twilio tried to pull this crap on me and I simply created another account with an email forwarder and left them holding the bag on the previous account
didnt even take 2 hours till your predication came true, you are the messiah