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646 points digianarchist | 2 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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p410n3 ◴[06 Oct 20 15:50 UTC] No.24699023[source]▶
What good are alerts when I sleep? I usually don't even check my personal mail until I'm done at work. There's a lot that can happen in 16h
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1. rgbrenner ◴[06 Oct 20 17:21 UTC] No.24700192[source]▶
On AWS I tie high billing threshold alerts with PagerDuty so it wakes me up at night.
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2. tupputuppu ◴[06 Oct 20 19:04 UTC] No.24701198[source]▶
Oh man, what a user friendly solution