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Careful what you wish for. Netlify sent a guy a $104k bill from the free plan. Thankfully social media outage saved the guy.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39520776

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Netlify changed their pricing after that so that free accounts are always free.

Could you give a reference please? I was literally going to recommend Netlify at work, but didn't after I saw that story.

Is $0.55/GB not enough reason to avoid them? I guess not if your business is making more than that - bandwidth expense for a shopping site shouldn't be a problem when the customers are spending $100 for every 0.1GB - but that price should realistically be closer to $0.01/GB or even $0.002/GB. Sounds like they're forwarding you AWS's extremely excessive bandwidth pricing.

> Is $0.55/GB not enough reason to avoid them?

Where did you read that? The pricing page says 10 credits per GB, and extra credits can be purchased at $10 per 1500 credit. So it's more like $0.067/GB.

https://www.netlify.com/pricing/#faq

> The free plan is always free, with hard monthly limits that cannot be exceeded or incur any costs.

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