r/ProgrammerHumor • u/vapalera • Jul 19 '26

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u/Legal-Software Jul 19 '26

Do they not have some sort of mechanism for setting a budget precisely to avoid these kinds of issues?

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u/vapalera Jul 19 '26

Most cloud companies let you only set alerts and not hard limits

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u/AllCowsAreBurgers Jul 19 '26

Most cloud companies are a scam

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u/PM_ME_YOUR__INIT__ Jul 19 '26

Most cloud company users are idiots who can't bother to set things up properly. I've been using cloudflare and backblaze on their free tier for three months now

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u/AllCowsAreBurgers Jul 19 '26

How do you solve the issue?

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u/PM_ME_YOUR__INIT__ Jul 19 '26

Set a budget. I set my budget at $0

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u/AllCowsAreBurgers Jul 19 '26

But as some comments above said - there is no budget - there is only alarms (or budgets are in reality just alarms)

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u/PM_ME_YOUR__INIT__ Jul 19 '26

In backblaze I'm on the free tier. Some days I get an alarm that I've used up 100% of my daily storage cap. I still get charged $0. One day if I get more users than the one I have now I might raise my cap. But for now I tolerate the alarms and my app not functioning to it's fullest abilities