gustav,

I just read this horrifying story about the cost of getting DDoS:ed when using Netlify as host.

https://old.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/1b14bty/netlify_just_sent_me_a_104k_bill_for_a_simple/

$104K bill for a small site, insane.

Thinking of moving away from Netlify because of this, my current plan includes 1TB/month in bandwidth and I use about 400MB per month of that, but in a large attack that could get used up.

Would feel much safer with a service that 503s the site with too much traffic. I don't really need 99.999% uptime anyway.

#Netlify #Hosting #DDoS

simoncox,
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@gustav

Looks like they have already dropped the charge and are actively working on solutions to stop this happening. All the same Cloudflare Pages is an easy switch!

gustav,

@simoncox hopefully they allow the customer to set their own limit on for when the site should just 503.

Their response is not exactly confidence inspiring since the reply came after the post went viral on https://hacker.news

simoncox,
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@gustav
appearing on hacker.news upped its priority from yes we really should do something about that one day to: shit - the CEO needs to make a statement right now.

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