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Bittich.be · Jun 8, 2025

Cloud Is Overkill

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Last week, I saw a Reddit post in which a user explained how Netlify sent him a bill of over $100K just for hosting a static website. 
 It seems it ended well for him since Netlify canceled the invoice (maybe because the post went viral). 
 Days after it went viral, someone created a website listing all these billing horror stories, which led me to read another article. 
 This time, it…

Last week, I saw a Reddit post in which a user explained how Netlify sent him a bill of over $100K just for hosting a static website.

It seems it ended well for him since Netlify canceled the invoice (maybe because the post went viral).

Days after it went viral, someone created a website listing all these billing horror stories, which led me to read another article.

This time, it was about a $72K bill from Google, for a Python script with a recursive bug deployed on Firebase.

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