Avoid Surprise Bills from AWS
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Avoid Surprise Bills from AWS
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#2Avoid getting your app taken down on the whim of a few jerks -> run your apps on the blockchain.
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#3Is there a way to keep the lambda concurrency and perhaps introduce an x% error?
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#4How much was that domain name?
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#5How much does a domain name like "begin.com" cost, and how do you get a good domain / brand name for your startup (without calling it "PurpleKerfuffle" or something unregistered)?
Is there a market for this? A strategy?
I'm trying to get something good, but I keep getting back figures in the millions of dollars. Even ".io" domains are $100k. It's ridiculous. Am I doing something wrong?
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#6Step 1: Avoid AWS.
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#7Somewhat surprised none of the major clouds off true sandboxed learning environments as a competitive advantage. i.e. We will not charge you more than $100 no matter what. Sure that doesn't work for enterprise stuff that has to be online, but there is a big market for people that can swallow $100 accidents but not 15k. And whoever offers that first will attract the cautious crowd. I've got friends that point blank refuse to use cloud due to the open ended billing.
(Azure comes closes as best as I can tell...their MSDN style credits seem to be true hard capped)
[Invariably this get's the "but what to do about the data...can't just delete it...yes you can. The $100 crowd is ok with that. 30 day grace then delete it...much like anyone with an unpaid bill]
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#8How much does a domain name like "begin.com" cost, and how do you get a good domain / brand name for your startup (without calling it "PurpleKerfuffle" or something unregistered)? Is there a market for this? A strategy? I'm trying to get something good, but I keep getting back figures in the millions of dollars. Even ".io" domains are $100k. It's ridiculous. Am I doing something wrong?
Either you are the squatter, you pay the squatter, or you dodge the squatter. It is what it is.
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#9If only there were a way to stop the surprise billing once it starts.
A friend created an AWS account with a new email address for a one-off side project, and wound up locked out of both the email account and the AWS account. But AWS has the credit card, so a 25 cent mystery charge appears every month.
AWS support is completely useless despite years of attempts at escalation, and of course the credit card company can't stop the automatic payments. The "solution" from both AWS and the credit card company is to... dispute the charge every month.
Forever.
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#10How much was that domain name?
Lol, we get that question all the time. One day we got offered $17,000 USD for the domain and it wasn't even the best offer that day