$1500 bandwidth bill in 1 day, need help

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• JohnFilch123 Member

  7:46AM

  I mean...if the extra charges are published on the website, you were supposed to read them. You can ofc negotiate, whether the provider will entertain that or not is another question. But well...it is kinda "I purchased a mercedes and it was $50k, can I maybe negotiate a cheaper price?" situation, which is not good.

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• itzsenu Member

  7:49AM

  @Tange said: my object storage generate over $1500 bandwidth bill in just one day,

  First, say who's the provider you're using, what kind of things you added, size, and where you used that S3?

  

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• rpqu Member

  8:00AM edited 8:14AM

  @Tange said:
  so, i did something wrong, my object storage generate over $1500 bandwidth bill in just one day, do you guys have any experience on this issue? can i negotiate with the provider to wave maybe part of the bill??

  
  Maybe you should give more details on the deployment.
  Choosing the wrong class of object storage, egress pricing, and whatever their policy on various operation will create baffling $$$.
  It's a rookie mistake
  If you can't stomach $1500 bandwidth bill, perhaps you should have set caps

  @systemfreaks maybe can help
• systemfreaks Member, Patron Provider

  8:06AM

  You can try negotiating with the provider. Depending on who the provider is, they may be able to offer you a discount. Doesn’t the provider also offer budget limits to prevent unexpected charges?

  If you’re interested in migrating, you can also check out our unmetered traffic options and protect yourself from such surprises in the future.

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• Tange Member

  8:15AM

  @itzsenu said:

  First, say who's the provider you're using, what kind of things you added, size, and where you used that S3?

  @rpqu said:

  If you can't stomach $1500 bandwidth bill, perhaps you should have set caps

  in short, i put the OSS origin directly to visitors, not behind the CDN like before

  and unfortunately, i didn't setup caps, then the bill BOOM

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• mhpteam Member

  8:17AM

  @Tange said:

  @itzsenu said:

  First, say who's the provider you're using, what kind of things you added, size, and where you used that S3?

  @rpqu said:

  If you can't stomach $1500 bandwidth bill, perhaps you should have set caps

  in short, i put the OSS origin directly to visitors, not behind the CDN like before

  and unfortunately, i didn't setup caps, then the bill BOOM

  💀

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• rpqu Member

  8:33AM

  @Tange said:

  @itzsenu said:

  First, say who's the provider you're using, what kind of things you added, size, and where you used that S3?

  @rpqu said:

  If you can't stomach $1500 bandwidth bill, perhaps you should have set caps

  in short, i put the OSS origin directly to visitors, not behind the CDN like before

  and unfortunately, i didn't setup caps, then the bill BOOM

  
  Next time, don't immediately sleep after changing configs

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• itzsenu Member

  8:35AM

  @Tange said: in short, i put the OSS origin directly to visitors, not behind the CDN like before

  and unfortunately, i didn't setup caps, then the bill BOOM

  $1500 ÷ $0.09 = 16.7 TB of egress.
  rich Config

  
• MagdAlmuntaser Member

  8:46AM edited 8:47AM

  This reminds me of when I got a VPS from a company here on LET from one of their offers..

  Literally one day after I got the VPS, they suspended my account because I had apparently used 110 TB of bandwidth..

  How did that happen? No idea!!

  How did I use more bandwidth than my whole $12/year plan? No idea!!

  Who used the VPS when I hadn't even logged in through SSH yet? No idea!!

  I don't wanna mention the company since you guys already know who they are..
  I'm not trying to expose them or anything..

  I already forgave them anyway, the VPS was so cheap that it wasn't really worth making a big deal out of it..