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I have seen similar stories with AWS. It’s somewhat shocking to me that there’s no way to ask to get cut off above some dollar limit. Is every customer risking unbounded liability?
#1 reason why I have never, and never plan to (while it remains this way), use GCP/AWS etc while it would be on my personal bank card. Instead I use DigitalOcean where you have droplet limits that you can set, and the ability the pre-pay if you pay by PayPal, and never enter my bank card. If anyone from DO (or another provider) is reading this, any chance of pre-payment from bank cards? After reading enough of these…
#1 reason why I have never, and never plan to (while it remains this way), use GCP/AWS etc while it would be on my personal bank card. Instead I use DigitalOcean where you have droplet limits that you can set, and the ability the pre-pay if you pay by PayPal, and never enter my bank card. If anyone from DO (or another provider) is reading this, any chance of pre-payment from bank cards? After reading enough of these…
that’s a non-argument. you can do the same with an EC2 instance. you know exactly what it’s gonna cost. it’s this fancy services with “elastic” pricing models that usually get you
#1 reason why I have never, and never plan to (while it remains this way), use GCP/AWS etc while it would be on my personal bank card. Instead I use DigitalOcean where you have droplet limits that you can set, and the ability the pre-pay if you pay by PayPal, and never enter my bank card. If anyone from DO (or another provider) is reading this, any chance of pre-payment from bank cards? After reading enough of these…
Personally, I would give my credit card to DO than needing to use PayPal. I avoid them. Always sad when stores only accept PayPal that's an instant missed sale.
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This was my thought as well. What other kinds of businesses or services let you run up a bill of tens of thousands of dollars and then say, "Ok, you made a mistake, you can take it back"? Any educated guesses on what this compute might actually cost Google? I assume they're able to do this because the fixed costs have mostly been paid for already and the marginal cost of the electricity, system wear, and bandwidth ar…
It would cost them dollars. An IPhone costs < $100 to make. Obviously there's a development cost to it all. it's also easy to suggest that there's probably a feature missing atm :D
> The ex-Googler reflected that he missed the possibility of pages that link back to each other, causing "infinite recursion." Although tangential to the billing issue, this is reckless. If you’re building a crawler of any kind, please, please, please prioritize ensuring this doesn’t happen so I don’t have to wake up at 3 AM. I run the infrastructure for a moderate-sized site with probably about a hundred million pag…
> The ex-Googler reflected that he missed the possibility of pages that link back to each other, causing "infinite recursion." Although tangential to the billing issue, this is reckless. If you’re building a crawler of any kind, please, please, please prioritize ensuring this doesn’t happen so I don’t have to wake up at 3 AM. I run the infrastructure for a moderate-sized site with probably about a hundred million pag…
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Next time don't ring, write and email. I've worked in financial sales. What's in the contract counts more than anything anyone ever says.
But is an email that says you only pay for the minutes counts as an contract?
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that’s a non-argument. you can do the same with an EC2 instance. you know exactly what it’s gonna cost. it’s this fancy services with “elastic” pricing models that usually get you
Sure, you know the price with renting one machine, and if what your doing is not a web app. But what about when you get way more network traffic than your app expected (I've seen HN submissions with exactly this)? And what if you built in some kind of scaling, automatically renting extra machines when you get traffic spikes? They have your card, you pay the $$$.
> The ex-Googler reflected that he missed the possibility of pages that link back to each other, causing "infinite recursion." Although tangential to the billing issue, this is reckless. If you’re building a crawler of any kind, please, please, please prioritize ensuring this doesn’t happen so I don’t have to wake up at 3 AM. I run the infrastructure for a moderate-sized site with probably about a hundred million pag…
It highly likely that this person caused a $72,000 bill on all the websites he has crawled. It's just that the cost is spread out over multiple websites so it is not noticeable.