[gaza3g]

Thank God for social media that the user was able to get attention about this on Reddit which he was then advised there to post this on HN. It must have been stressful to see a six-figure bill and then get told that that, no worries, you’d ‘only’ be charged $5k instead for a static site. It’s just ridiculous to me to be sent a 6-figure bill in the first place.

[herbst]

I hope this is not one of the cases that get simply forgotten and in a week or two their beginner unfriendly platform gets recommended again without a second thought.

With models like this and AWS people will get afraid of success

[quickthrower2]

I think fly/netlify/vercel/render etc. get a decent enough flak on here for costs and/or reliability.

The average HNer seems to be recommending colocating your physical server :-)

[ptdorf]

This is the way.

[mlrtime]

Well, it's still debatable for the history books if social media is a net good.

Before the internet, these issues would be handled by local news journalism, and still sometimes do!

[romphl]

I mean, social media is pretty much an inevitability once mobile phones/internet became mainstream. Just like the invention of the gun and gunpowder, I think we are still debating if it was good for society right to this day.