Comment by jeroenhd
1 year ago
Why do we need regulation? "Keep the service up no matter what happens, no matter the cost" is a useful business model for companies that make the mistake of promising too many nines to their customers.
The issue at hand is that people put small websites on hosting providers designed for megacorporation wealth, like Netlify. I highly doubt the average blog needs more than a $10 VPS located in one single country without automatic fallback to another data centre. You can probably even go with a $5 VPS if you don't care about the first wave of HN front page bots not being able to reach your site.
> You can probably even go with a $5 VPS...
You wouldn't believe the amount of times I've said this and the response was "but it costs me nothing right now"...
> "Keep the service up no matter what happens, no matter the cost" is a useful business model
I mean, yeah - but that shouldn't be the default and it shouldn't be something that you can't opt out of if it is, which is what sounds like happened with Netlify.
Why would Netlify offer the option to opt out when extreme availability is their core business? I'd argue that people are using the wrong service provider if they need to opt out in the first place.
Same goes for most of the other pay-as-you-go providers that turn HN into billing support every now and then; very rarely do I see "we suddenly got a $20k bill" posts about services that these extreme availability products make sense for.