Netlify just sent me a $104K bill for a simple static site

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  1. coolify

    An open-source & self-hostable Heroku / Netlify / Vercel alternative.

    Hetzner or DigitalOcean with Coolify [0] works great, it's like an open source Heroku that runs on any host, you get git push to deploy, and a bunch of other features built in. It only works on one machine at a time though so it's not like a CDN but for small sites, it's great.

    [0] https://coolify.io

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  3. hugo-quick-start

    Hugo Quick Start on Render

    been happy with https://render.com/ free static hosting with custom domains.

    used to use s3 doe the longest time, but aside from costing a nominal fee, it's so unnecessarily complicated in this day and age.

  4. cli

    Netlify Command Line Interface (by netlify)

    There are lots of reasons to avoid Netlify.

    https://github.com/netlify/cli/issues/739

  5. ask-netlify

    Discontinued A place to submit questions for Netlify to answer in tutorials, podcasts and blog posts

    Does this issue only occur if you have billing info on file?

    I'm using the free tier and have no billing info set. According to this https://github.com/netlify/ask-netlify/issues/6#issuecomment...

  6. workers.cloudflare.com

    The Cloudflare Workers website.

    I believe you can replace most cases (static sites) with Cloudflare Workers [1].

    [1] https://workers.cloudflare.com/

  7. registry

    The all-new opentofu.org registry! (by opentofu)

    CloudFlare pricing is indeed positively ridiculous.

    At OpenTofu[0] we’re using CloudFlare R2 to host the providers and modules registry[1]. Bandwidth is free, you only pay for requests.

    This already would be great, but there’s more - you only pay for requests that actually hit R2. So with an almost 100% cache hit ratio, we barely register any billable requests.

    Recently someone decided to load test us and generated ~1TB of traffic over 1-3 days. All but a few of these requests were cached, so the whole situation probably cost us less than a cent.

    [0]: https://opentofu.org

    [1]: https://github.com/opentofu/registry

  8. opentofu

    OpenTofu lets you declaratively manage your cloud infrastructure.

    CloudFlare pricing is indeed positively ridiculous.

    At OpenTofu[0] we’re using CloudFlare R2 to host the providers and modules registry[1]. Bandwidth is free, you only pay for requests.

    This already would be great, but there’s more - you only pay for requests that actually hit R2. So with an almost 100% cache hit ratio, we barely register any billable requests.

    Recently someone decided to load test us and generated ~1TB of traffic over 1-3 days. All but a few of these requests were cached, so the whole situation probably cost us less than a cent.

    [0]: https://opentofu.org

    [1]: https://github.com/opentofu/registry

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  10. Vegeta

    HTTP load testing tool and library. It's over 9000!

    Vegeta worth a look if you want something a bit more sophisticated: https://github.com/tsenart/vegeta

  11. ness

    Deploy web sites and apps to your own cloud account effortlessly.

    Yeah there are a bunch of selfhostable things:

    Caprover (https://caprover.com/)

    Dokku (https://github.com/dokku/dokku)

    But people still choose Netlify and Vercel for ease of use I think.

    Maybe we need something that's just Netlify. The closest I've seen to the "right" UX is Ness:

    https://ness.sh

  12. Dokku

    A docker-powered PaaS that helps you build and manage the lifecycle of applications

    Yeah there are a bunch of selfhostable things:

    Caprover (https://caprover.com/)

    Dokku (https://github.com/dokku/dokku)

    But people still choose Netlify and Vercel for ease of use I think.

    Maybe we need something that's just Netlify. The closest I've seen to the "right" UX is Ness:

    https://ness.sh

  13. pages-action

    Discontinued 🛑 DEPRECATED, please use wrangler-action

    For static sites, I’m quite happy with CloudFlare Pages + Github deploy action. (https://github.com/cloudflare/pages-action)

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