Serverless Horrors
3 days ago
- #horror-stories
- #cloud-billing
- #unexpected-charges
- Webflow charged $1189.420 for a single month from a $69/month plan.
- Firebase bill of $100k due to a DoS attack on a WebGL games site.
- Vercel Pro user billed $738.420 despite a $120 spending limit.
- Unexpected $70,000.69 bill on a $50/month project.
- $22,639.69 bill from BigQuery usage on a public dataset.
- $250/month charge for 9,000 page visits ($3,000/year).
- $1,273.69 bill after AI (Devin) made codebase changes.
- Sudden $530.19 bill with no prior charges.
- $383.69 bill for a documentation site.
- $103.26 horror story involving a free tier service.
- $96,280.69 unexpected charge leaving user speechless.
- Cloudflare demanded $120,000 within 24 hours or take down the site.
- $1,300.69 bill for an empty, private AWS S3 bucket.
- $11,000.69 spent on emails during a DoS attack, followed by database loss.
- Netlify overdue bill of $104,500.123.
- Vercel bill spiked to $23k due to spam, affecting 56k+ accounts.
- $3,000.69 warning for Vercel users about testing/deploying.
- $620.123 bill due to sitemap.txt consuming hundreds of GB/hours.
- $72,000.999 spent testing Firebase + Cloud Run, nearly causing bankruptcy.