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nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Feb-2024 05:05:22 JST nixCraft 🐧

Another serverless horror story 😅 this why you need anti ddos protection or at least use free cloudflare plan else get ready for this kind of shock 😳
In conversation about 9 months ago from mastodon.social permalink
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1. Netlify just sent me a $104K bill for a simple static site So I received an email from Netlify last weekend saying that I have a $104,500.00 bill overdue. At first I thought this is a joke or some scam email but after checking my dashboard it seems like I am truly owing them 104K dollars: That's 190TB bandwidth in 4 days So l was like @ @© and think okay maybe I got ddos attacked. Since Netlify charges 55$/100GB for the exceeding bandwidth, the peak day Feb 16 has 33385/55 * 100GB = 60.7TB bandwidth in a day. I mean, it's not impossible but why attack a simple static site like mine? This site has been on Netlify for 4 years and is always okay with the free tier. The monthly bandwidth never exceeded even 10GB, and has only ~200 daily visitors. I contacted their billing support and they responded me that they looked into it and the bandwidth came from some user agents, meaning it is a ddos attack. Then they say such cases happen and they usually charge their customer 20% on this. And since my amount is too large, they offer to discount to 5%, which means I still need to pay 5 thousand dollars.
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- nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Feb-2024 05:17:25 JST nixCraft 🐧
  in reply to
  - Ehqo
  @ehqo @nixCraft yes that is the major advantage of cloudflare
  
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- Ehqo (ehqo@social.lol)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Feb-2024 05:17:26 JST Ehqo
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  @nixCraft Proxying my domain on Cloudflare would prevent this, right? I was literally just about to put my static site up on Netlify. 😵💫
  
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- nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Feb-2024 05:20:23 JST nixCraft 🐧
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  - El Pirrata
  - Dan Siegel
  @danielmaxsiegel @El_Pirrata @nixCraft Actually, after reading viral tweets and stories, their CEO dropped all charges. It is zero now. The CEO did this to avoid further negativity towards its service, I guess
  
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- Dan Siegel (danielmaxsiegel@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Feb-2024 05:20:25 JST Dan Siegel
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  - El Pirrata
  @El_Pirrata @nixCraft $104k was the full amount - they originally offered a discounting to the 20% rate (~$20k) before a support rep offered OP to drop it to 5%
  
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- El Pirrata (el_pirrata@mastodon.escepticos.es)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Feb-2024 05:20:26 JST El Pirrata
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  @nixCraft so 20% is 104K, and 5% is 5K? Really, George?
  
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- hdante (hdante@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Feb-2024 06:23:41 JST hdante
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  @nixCraft what the fuck, why wasn't the site blocked ? I will delete my Netlify site !
  
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- GoatsLive (goatslive@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Feb-2024 07:16:30 JST GoatsLive
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  @nixCraft Exactly why I chose a
  web host doesn't charge for bandwidth and has cloudflare built in!
  
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- bimmer (bimmer@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Feb-2024 08:09:15 JST bimmer
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  @nixCraft a lot of malicious bots show their hand early by trying to reach /wp-admin, and I ban those forever on the spot
  
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- LuckyStoat (luckystoat@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Feb-2024 10:05:31 JST LuckyStoat
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  @nixCraft I've always had that fear when dealing with cloud providers that there generally aren't hard-caps on resource use. I understand scalability is more important for high traffic sites, but for a small static site or service, cost is likely the more important part.
  
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- Robert Lou Dobbs III (7faces@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Feb-2024 12:40:25 JST Robert Lou Dobbs III
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  @nixCraft An example of why the modern Internet is made to be prohibitive to little guy (person).
  
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