[sodality2]

Contractually? I doubt it. But they have refunded many, many people on their forums after they report accidental charges. Whether they continue is a different story, but I feel safe using it and certain that I won't be overcharged.

To be clear a bandwidth limit would be awesome! And the pricing may not be for everyone. However there is a large amount of leeway as evidenced by the community forum posts.

[jen20]

Good will does not feel like a good way to scale this. For a business that might be ok, but I’m highly unlikely to recommend to a business something I haven’t personally investigated, and I’m not writing cheques whose value is dependent on the good will of a startup.

I don’t understand why cloud providers will not accommodate this basic “prepay to X and allow me to use the credit” model.

[sodality2]

>I don’t understand why cloud providers will not accommodate this basic “prepay to X and allow me to use the credit” model.

They actually do:

> You can configure fly.io apps with a max monthly budget, we'll suspend them when they hit that budget, and then re-enable them at the beginning of the next month.

From their Launch HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22616857

[brundolf]

According to this they got rid of the feature at some point: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31391451