[robertlagrant]

Hah - yes DataDog is what we moved to after the grand Azure fail. That was better, in that costs were more controllable, but you have to learn their billing world, which is in itself very painful.

All these services are predicated on the idea that you never want your site to go down, and will pay anything to keep it running. So if you start logging gigabytes a second, in the old world your VPS would've started failing and your website's buttons would start showing errors to the user. Now, the user doesn't see an error, but you get charged hundreds or thousands of dollars a month to keep it up, even if your website generates you $50/mo.