| ▲ | trick-or-treat 12 hours ago |
| Prepaid only is a fantastic idea, especially for dumb-ass startups. Limiting your liability to $100 or so sound like a big-ass W. |
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| ▲ | eru 12 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Yes, pre-paid would be fine and it's a well-understood pattern. No need to retire API keys. |
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| ▲ | 100ms 12 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Implementing this in any meaningful manner quickly begins to look like every read becoming a globally synchronised write. Of course it doesn't have to be perfect, but even approximating perfection doesn't look much different. Also, can you imagine the kind of downtimes and complaints that would inevitably originate from a fully synchronous billing architecture? |
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| ▲ | eru 12 hours ago | parent [-] | | > Of course it doesn't have to be perfect, but even approximating perfection doesn't look much different. It's pretty easy to get right, if the provider allows you to go (slightly) negative before cutting you off. > Also, can you imagine the kind of downtimes and complaints that would inevitably originate from a fully synchronous billing architecture? Doesn't need to fully synchronous. |
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| ▲ | christkv 12 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Open ai has this |
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| ▲ | freedomben 12 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Prepaid only is a fantastic idea, until your site goes (desirably) viral and then gets shut off right as traffic is picking up, or you grow steadily and forget to increase your deposit amount and suddenly production is down. Billing alerts are a much better solution IMHO. |
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| ▲ | trick-or-treat 12 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | No you big dummy, that is especially when you want to limit your liability, lol. Because these days it will be all worthless bot traffic. | |
| ▲ | dummydummy1234 12 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Prepaid/paid limits with shutoff is appropriate for this though. If you have per key limits, this is not possible, and even in a wild situation you should b able to expect that your firebase key will not use 50k. | |
| ▲ | lisdexan 12 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Let me choose. This common point seems more like a rationalization for the default behavior of hyperscalers. AWS isn't avoiding prepaid due to concern about my site's virality, just that prepaid = less money. | |
| ▲ | microtonal 12 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | You can also have both, a cap and one or more billing alert levels below it. Some providers do this (e.g. IIRC Backblaze B2). | | |
| ▲ | freedomben 12 hours ago | parent [-] | | Yes in reality, and ideally, you can have both, but GP specifically said "Prepaid only" implying you can't have both (which is what I replied to) | | |
| ▲ | eru 11 hours ago | parent [-] | | Well, they should also have pre-paid only. Offer a few different options. |
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