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Comment by mythz

1 year ago

More reasons why I avoid clouds with outrageous bandwidth fees, and prefer Hetzner's low cost fixed pricing with Cloudflare R2's 0 egress fees.

Even if the DDoS wasn't caught by Cloudflare, the total cost for 192TB bandwidth on Hetzner would be €172. Although even after 10 years on Hetzner I've never paid for any bandwidth, always well within their generous 20TB free bandwidth.

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SXX  1 year ago

First of all Hetzner would't let your server to be DDOSed for 192TB if it's not your normal usage. They'll likely just null route your IP if serious attack hit.

They also likely drop any charges if you escalate via support in case it was actually DDOS. E.g if you normally have 100GB / month and now you magically have 50TB / day.

What Netlify does is a scam.

  • ozfive  1 year ago

    I feel a class action lawsuit is incoming. Potentially with FTC support...

Culonavirus  1 year ago

I really hate Clouflare and at the same time love them. Love them for their free, generous 500k req./day pages and workers, hate them for not having spending limits (or at least I can't find them). I get that they probably don't care about individuals and small businesses paying them peanuts, and corps can afford to pay extra if something blows up, but for me it just means I will only use a free account, and they get none of my money.

  • mythz  1 year ago

    I also take advantage of their free services and only pay for R2 on Cloudflare since it's the best value managed provider I could find.

    I prefer to keep my App's stateless and running in Docker containers which means storing all uploaded files and generated assets in R2 managed storage - which is also used for Litestream backups of our SQLite databases.

    Blowouts are minimized when using low cost services, e.g. we had a rogue process that ended up causing 1.5M writes to R2, which only ended up costing us $4.50 in that month.