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646 points digianarchist | 3 comments | 06 Oct 20 14:59 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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onion2k ◴[06 Oct 20 15:38 UTC] No.24698869[source]▶
Like all DigitalOcean products, the App Platform provides predictable, easy-to-understand pricing that allows you to control costs to prevent surprise bills.

I can't see any features listed that enable me to control costs to prevent surprise bills. If a site got submitted to HN and hugged to not-to-death-because-it-autoscales then I'd wake up to a bunch of alerts and massive outbound bandwidth bill. I don't want that. I want something that stops that happening.

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phildougherty ◴[06 Oct 20 15:43 UTC] No.24698927[source]▶
Thanks for the feedback! Autoscaling is not yet supported on the platform (but is coming soon). Before autoscaling lands as a feature, insights based alerting will also land. You'll be able to setup alerts for scaling events, bandwidth, cpu, memory, and more that can be sent via email or slack.
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onion2k ◴[06 Oct 20 15:50 UTC] No.24699014[source]▶
My point is that alerts aren't really enough. If I'm asleep or on a plane or something then it could be many hours before I even see an alert, by which time it's probably too late. I'd prefer to be able to set up rules beforehand that prevent an unforeseen bill.

If the App Platform doesn't have that feature, and it isn't planned, that's OK but I'd argue that isn't really preventing a surprise bill as the marketing site claims. A warning isn't quite the same as prevention.

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garettmd ◴[06 Oct 20 15:54 UTC] No.24699078{3}[source]▶
Most autoscaling platforms let you define min and max types of restrictions. I assume DO would have the same functionality in their autoscaling.
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1. bravura ◴[06 Oct 20 17:02 UTC] No.24700006{4}[source]▶
Correct me if I'm wrong, but AWS doesn't allow you to do hard limits.

I was creating a public S3 bucket today and wanted there to be a hard limit, so I couldn't get slapped with a huge AWS bill. Looking at the docs, it appears I can get alerts but not set a hard limit on my billing.

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2. user5994461 ◴[06 Oct 20 17:34 UTC] No.24700336[source]▶
AWS allow to set limits on autoscaling groups, ECS, EKS. All the things with autoscaling really.

If you're worried about billing, S3 is not a great choice. S3 is precisely unlimited storage for enterprise.

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3. SahAssar ◴[06 Oct 20 21:22 UTC] No.24702465[source]▶
Saying that something that is billed based on usage is not also able to have it's usage capped seems weird.