[hnfong]

To be fair, these days, things can become viral literally overnight.

That said, instead of depending on unreliable heuristics, they should just allow an option to change the behavior. The "current policy" to charge small sites on the free tier thousands of dollars instead of just throttling/shutting down the traffic is really predatory.

[quickthrower2]

60TB with each request for 1Mb say would be 60000000 visitors. So guess this is possible but hell of unlikely.

[Izkata]

"static site" doesn't necessarily mean "small". It would be easy to go way over 1Mb with a couple of pictures.

[frontalier]

at 60MB it is still one million downloads

[krick]

I'm not trying to justify netlify, because it's pretty obvious all cloud providers have vile intentions here (even though they pretend otherwise): it's obvious that total majority of use cases for such platforms are toy or small-scale projects, and literally everyone in this market would prefer their website being shut down, rather than getting $100K (or even $5K) bill, BUT…

1 million downloads (= visits) is nothing for "going viral overnight"

[pants2]

Most people won't want to fork over $100k to support a hobby project that's gone viral either.

[brnt]

Anyone exceeding their plan with a factor of 10 or hell, let's make it a 100, almost certainly didn't anticipate it and thus isn't prepared for the kind of bill that apparently comes with it (or even knows that there would be a bill). On top of that, there currently is no way to state such rules up front! Moverover, according to their own explanation, it was almost certainly not organic traffic!

I wager the vast majority of people in the free tier would gladly cap their traffic at the (generous!) bandwidth offered by Netlify. Even to the majority in paid tiers, 100k bills where there previously was none must be unwanted and unintended.

I mean, we all know dark patterns are a thing...