A while ago, I noticed some very small oscillations in my Cloudflare R2 bill (1-2 cents / month) and decided to ask about it out of curiosity. Support was tepid - understandable for my $1 / month account - and it wasn't until later that I realized the difference probably had to do with the number of days in the month.
Would this API have helped?
alexander2002 1 days ago [-]
seems like you fit the profile of the dude who uncovered a major fraud just due to his habit of checking minor increases/expenses
dghlsakjg 20 hours ago [-]
Not sure if you're thinking of the same story, but this reminds me of Cliff Stoll finding KGB hackers poking around military and university networks in the 80s because of a time billing discrepancy.
Translated: Close, but still not hard cost cap at Cloudflare.
cube00 1 days ago [-]
Goes well with every other cloud provider refusing to offer a hard cost cap.
Unless of course you're on their credits then miraculously they do support a hard cap with every service stopping the second you go one cent over.
vanyo09 15 hours ago [-]
AWS has one. New accounts can pick a Free plan, which has no billing path - when the credits run out or six months pass, the account closes instead of charging you.
Not configurable, though. You still can't tell a production account to stop at $50.
Onavo 1 days ago [-]
Vercel does. They don't get enough credit for it.
Zeit is good. Glory to Zeit.
deemwar 18 hours ago [-]
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pemontto 22 hours ago [-]
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amylee2051 22 hours ago [-]
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Rendered at 21:05:25 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) with Vercel.
Would this API have helped?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cuckoo%27s_Egg_(book)
Unless of course you're on their credits then miraculously they do support a hard cap with every service stopping the second you go one cent over.
Not configurable, though. You still can't tell a production account to stop at $50.
Zeit is good. Glory to Zeit.