I am never going to want to spend 200k of my personal money on some project on a cloud. Never. I don't even want my ant-based basket viewing project simulator to cost me 1 thousand dollars because it went viral and all clouds overcharge for bandwith.
Just let me put in a limit.
E.g. when my limit is reached to they remove the database, along with all backups, and all objects on S3? Since storage is billed, it should also be stopped when the limit is reached, right?
I think in practice among companies paying most of their revenue, there’d be zero interest in this, while it would be a lot of effort to implement.
This is really something specific to hobby projects, which just shouldn’t be using those “unlimited potential cost” services.
My tinfoil hat is that a lot of cloud billing is accidental, probably from "lab environments", and they don't want to provide a way to budget/limit these.
“Turning them off” means deleting them.
The provider could reject further access to them (reads / writes) once the limit is reached. The cost of actually keeping objects as "cold" storage has a natural cap per billing cycle since those are billed based on time.
I only know of Hertzner.
Exactly - the whole point of a cloud provider is scalability. If you're doing a personal hobby project, get off big scalable clouds and get yourself one (or multiple!) fixed-price VPS or dedicated servers.
But as I think of it, I think what people really want, for hobby projects, is not so much the scalability, but the managed offerings. They want zero-ops, zero-maintenance, zero-server-updates hosting, with a fixed price and hard limits. It won't be infinitely scalable, but it doesn't need to be - it's a hobby project.
They just don't wanna sysadmin a server of their own. Which is completely understandable.
There's room in the market for something like this.
offerings were published on the main page and afaik no takers. We migrated off whatever hypervisor we were using onto wok/kimchi and finally to proxmox, so my scripts still work, but proxmox has turnkey linux "quickstart" servers now as well as lxd, so there's less reason to use my scripts.