How not to get a $30k bill from Firebase
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How not to get a $30k bill from Firebase
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Re: How not to get a $30k bill from Firebase
#2TLDR: The huge bill was a result of an improper way the application was coded. They contacted Google/Firebase who were gracious enough to waive off the bill.
Re: How not to get a $30k bill from Firebase
#3TLDR: The huge bill was a result of an improper way the application was coded. They contacted Google/Firebase who were gracious enough to waive off the bill.
Glad to hear that Google has done something with it.
Also that's one of the reasons I try to use the realtime database, and not firestore. But they still charge for bandwidth there (most if it is consumed by downloading the SSL certificates from the clients).
Re: How not to get a $30k bill from Firebase
#4TLDR: The huge bill was a result of an improper way the application was coded. They contacted Google/Firebase who were gracious enough to waive off the bill.
Where did you see that? I don't see anything about the bill being waived in the post..
Re: How not to get a $30k bill from Firebase
#5TLDR: The huge bill was a result of an improper way the application was coded. They contacted Google/Firebase who were gracious enough to waive off the bill.
Where did you see that? I don't see anything about the bill being waived in the post..
Re: How not to get a $30k bill from Firebase
#6Offtopic
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Re: How not to get a $30k bill from Firebase
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
Where did you see that? I don't see anything about the bill being waived in the post..
https://hackernoon.com/how-we-spent-30k-usd-in-firebase-in-l...
I see. Thanks. Hadn't realised theres a link to the actual post-mortem. I thought that part was underlined for emphasis.
Really should've just linked to that hackernoon post though IMO, contains a lot more details thats very helpful in understanding what actually happened.
Re: How not to get a $30k bill from Firebase
#9TLDR: The huge bill was a result of an improper way the application was coded. They contacted Google/Firebase who were gracious enough to waive off the bill.
Not the first, and surely not the last time we read about this kind of stuff here.
And one of the reasons I prefer either running web things on my own server(s) as much as possible. And can't you set a charge limit on Firebase?
Re: How not to get a $30k bill from Firebase
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