Having said all that, most devs can host the few hundred visits they might get over a month with a $200 home server and a free CloudFlare cache if they know what they're doing.

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 13 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Have you heard of virtual debit cards?

I tried one and it didn't work. Reading about it said they block those.

I don't need an email. I need it to stop instantly. In the time it takes me to notice an email, I could have hundreds of dollars in charges.

[–] kogasa@programming.dev 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

All cloud providers will support budget notifications. That doesn't do much good when you shoot past the budget in a short timespan. I set a Google cloud budget of $20/month and enabled a Tensorboard instance, which had no observable indication that it cost anything except the base cost of the VM, and got notified that I was $280 over budget the next day. Apparently there was an upfront $300/month/user fee for Tensorboard. (Several months later they changed the pricing model to $10 GiB/month with no user fee.)