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646 points digianarchist | 1 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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mariushn ◴[06 Oct 20 16:37 UTC] No.24699668[source]▶
We need limits, not alerts. That is, autoscale up to X.
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1. phildougherty ◴[06 Oct 20 17:04 UTC] No.24700027[source]▶
Thanks for the clarification. We do plan to implement hard limits in the autoscaling feature.