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There is also a hard physical limit on how much electricity you can use before you blow out the fuse box

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Also, people don't casually swing by my house and start using my electricity.

So my powerbills are predictable.

Whereas traffic spikes to websites are not.

This age of abusive AI crawlers and the non-revenue generating traffic has been a very real problem for me!

> Whereas traffic spikes to websites are not.

But it would be trivial for the platform to rate limit traffic.

You need to be aware of all ways outside people can rack up your bill. If you've got experience it's okay, but getting hit with a huge bill because you left an S3 bucket out in the open is something that has happened too many times to people starting out.

> but there’s a limit to how surprising a bill can be

I think they explicitly said that.

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