[ev1]

Yep, unfortunately usage based billing is not possible for us. We can't use any usage based cloud services at all due to abuse and attacks - can't even host a simple avatar or button images on S3 without someone trying to infinite loop curl them to blow through budget abusively. On top of that, if you're going to reverse proxy the site, your service will probably be hit repeatedly with 300G+ attacks.

Do you have an email (ideally one that doesn't pipe into a ticket system)? Maybe I can share some possible/creative attacks we've seen that you can improve your service with, even if it's out of budget for us.

As a comparison note, Stackpath does 1mil requests for $10/m.

[NetToolKit]

Our contact form does not pipe into a ticketing system (it goes into support@[our domain, available via our profile link], which is just a G Suite email account that you can use to contact us directly).

I'd very much appreciate hearing your thoughts about attacks and understanding what an effective solution would be. Thanks also for your note about Stackpath -- we aren't a CDN, but Gatekeeper could help reduce bandwidth usage by denying requests.

[ev1]

I mean that is the price for Stackpath WAF (captcha, rate limiting, etc) :)