Comment by 7moritz7
1 year ago
How does a 60 TB in a day peak for a site that previously never crossed the free tier threshhold not qualify as "attack pattern"?
This is a static site. To reach that sort of bandwidth out of nowhere you'd need to publish the blueprint for a teleportation machine
To be fair, these days, things can become viral literally overnight.
That said, instead of depending on unreliable heuristics, they should just allow an option to change the behavior. The "current policy" to charge small sites on the free tier thousands of dollars instead of just throttling/shutting down the traffic is really predatory.
60TB with each request for 1Mb say would be 60000000 visitors. So guess this is possible but hell of unlikely.
"static site" doesn't necessarily mean "small". It would be easy to go way over 1Mb with a couple of pictures.
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Most people won't want to fork over $100k to support a hobby project that's gone viral either.
Anyone exceeding their plan with a factor of 10 or hell, let's make it a 100, almost certainly didn't anticipate it and thus isn't prepared for the kind of bill that apparently comes with it (or even knows that there would be a bill). On top of that, there currently is no way to state such rules up front! Moverover, according to their own explanation, it was almost certainly not organic traffic!
I wager the vast majority of people in the free tier would gladly cap their traffic at the (generous!) bandwidth offered by Netlify. Even to the majority in paid tiers, 100k bills where there previously was none must be unwanted and unintended.
I mean, we all know dark patterns are a thing...