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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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pomatic ◴[06 Oct 20 17:35 UTC] No.24700352[source]▶
This is laughable - billing is logically separated from droplet use, so unlike other providers DO charges for the potential to use a capability, rather than actual use, regardless of whether it is consumed. I got stung badly by this - charged for X droplets capability when zero droplets capability was being used for several months. Explained the misunderstanding to DO, got no sympathy & no refund. Won't touch them again, don't trust them further than I could throw them.
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ohgodplsno ◴[06 Oct 20 18:40 UTC] No.24700952[source]▶
You bought access to X servers knowingly (because you can't do that by accident), let them sit here knowingly, then got billed the exact number that was listed, but somehow that's DigitalOcean's fault ?
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pomatic ◴[06 Oct 20 19:08 UTC] No.24701228{3}[source]▶
> let them sit here knowingly

Nothing was deployed. Zip, zero, zilch resources were used month-on-month. My fault, yes, but naively I assumed if this was the case, billing would automatically drop to zero.

Whilst I bought access to X servers but had no way to remove the charge associated with that without contacting customer services when I decided X=0, permanently.

I mean, really? I have no problem with PAYG or PAYG to a capped amount, but PAYG for a fixed amount regardless of whether or not the resources are actually deployed is disingenuous at best.

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1. hundchenkatze ◴[06 Oct 20 19:22 UTC] No.24701374{4}[source]▶
> Nothing was deployed. Zip, zero, zilch resources were used month-on-month.

This is like leasing a car, leaving it parked, and then complaining you have to pay the lease.