• Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl
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      6 months ago

      Every week a new Cara falls victim to “unexpected” cloud costs like these, Cara is by no means unique in the way it racked up a bill out of nowhere and nearly bankrupted itself.

        • bitfucker@programming.dev
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          6 months ago

          Instagram by Meta has started using user generated content for their training data. Naturally users are upset about this and are flocking to a new platform named Cara made by an artist which has principle and are actively fighting for artist copyright. Cara uses Vercel to host their platform. The problem is that the sudden influx of users means bigger bills to pay to handle those traffic (I think they are billed around ~$96k). As of now, it is unclear how they will proceed to pay the bills. The creator of Cara didn’t want to compromise his stance by accepting any money willy-nilly, but also acknowledged that angel investors are not easy to find.

  • ndru@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Explanation: “serverless” hosting platforms like Vercel and Netlify offer generous free tiers, with extremely expressive overage charges for bandwidth and processor time. When a small project suddenly goes viral, bills of tens of thousands dollars per day rack up.