Hi, I’d like to avoid a $104,500 bill for my simple static sites on a Starter plan. My sites don’t need to be so highly available that it makes them vulnerable to DDOS attacks and me vulnerable to bills I won’t be able to pay. I’m perfectly happy with my sites going down after 100 GB of bandwidth u…

I hadn’t spotted this thread, thanks. (Had to look up the meaning of necro’d!) I’m keen to understand what is and what isn’t in place to protect sites on the plan we’re on, as well as any additional protections for different plans.

Great questions @ross.coundon ! I believe it to be around 3.30am at Netlify HQ, so I imagine they’ll respond once it’s their business hours.

Referencing threads that are related to this feature request: [image] Netlify billing horror story Admin Today, a user on Reddit, claimed that they got a $104k Netlify bill for their static site, after their free plan site was DDoSed . They also claimed that support only d…

Just tying in the follow up questions from the user that encountered the originally linked billing issue: [image] I am the OP of that $104K bill post and I have some follow-up questions Support Hi Netlify, I am the OP of this post Netlify just sent me a $104K bill for a si…

@knapsack8008 Thank you for your feedback! My sites don’t need to be so highly available that it makes them vulnerable to DDOS attacks and me vulnerable to bills I won’t be able to pay. I’m perfectly happy with my sites going down after 100 GB of bandwidth usage. To be clear, this case was not a…

Another related thread: [image] Simple question: Can you just take my site offline if I go over the bandwidth limit Opentalk I really don’t understand why I can’t just set a hard limit on all of categories you get changed for. I would gladly pay for an enterpr…

Vercel has a good marketing department.

They’re certainly trying to make effective use of an opportunity that has presented itself. It’s not fun that it happened overall, but people have requested related features for years and it’ll be great to see if any of them get traction. I’d be in the extreme minority but I’d actually like it if …

[image] nathanmartin: They’re certainly trying to make effective use of an opportunity that has presented itself. Like the non-alcoholic beer brand that put a mobile billboard outside parliament house after the Barnaby incident! :rofl: :+1: [image] nathanmartin: I’d be in the extreme min…

[image] dig: Heroku got rid of their free tier a year or two back if I recall. They did. We promptly abandoned them, but it wasn’t a loss for them, since we weren’t paying customers! [image] dig: As long as they don’t ask for a credit card up-front I’m in. That’s definitely important…

Add automated kill switch or rate limiting to prevent excess billing from DDOS attacks

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nathanmartin March 1, 2024, 3:00am 9

Another related thread:

Related features marketed by Vercel:

Spend management

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Add automated kill switch or rate limiting to prevent excess billing from DDOS attacks

Spend management

DDoS protections

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