Once again last night, my wallet was saved when a runaway bot chewed up my site’s whole daily spending limit. I got an email from a user, set up a firewall rule, and goosed my budget to get things going again.
I’m very concerned about Google’s decision to remove this feature. Offering a cloud service that bills by usage without having a way to limit the spend shifts an unreasonable amount of risk onto the subscriber. I’ve set up budget alerts, as suggested, but I’m concerned that: - What if my bill shoots up really fast? How quickly is this alert going to go out? - What if I am away from the computer (remember when we used to be able to leave our houses? good times… good times…)? I run this particular site as a not-for-profit social good. (It’s a site that small town governments use to post their meetings.) I make no money on it. I’d be perfectly happy to handle this with self-set quotas on something other than dollars. For example, in my case the budget-buster is always “Cloud Datastore Read Operations.” If I could set a cap on that one thing, it’d give me the protection I need. -Joshua -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/FC0F0C74-0D40-48DF-8919-208202A9B1A8%40gmail.com.
