alt Hacker NewsI would pay for Cloudflare Workers Paid ($5) in a heartbeat and currently use the free version of cloudflare for all my DNS / Hosting etc. Where it does not meet my needs i have Dokpoly + Digital Ocean. I would use CloudFlare Containers. I currently pay for resend.com for all my email API needs.
The problem is that once you're on the paid plan, you're exposed to unlimited risk if your worker goes crazy due to a stupid code bug or if you're hacked. As a solo dev, it's a risk I simply cannot take; I could wake to a bankruptcy bill from Cloudflare. Even as a company, an employee could sign you up and your accounts team would have no idea of the risk.
I am using Supabase at the moment, and see they have a hard cap now. and so does Vercel after they had some nightmare stories of large bills in the past.
I am not sure why / what CloudFlare think about this - or simply dont care.
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Have you done the math on this because it's actually very, very difficult to blow up your Cloudflare bill compared to something like Vercel or Firebase.
For example 1 million requests to a Worker is only $0.30 and there's no bandwidth charge. Similar for R2, Pages, etc.
Also I believe their rate limiting rules have been completely free for one or two years now.
100% agree. Spending limits for Workers would be a game changer.
There are many services I wanted to use Workers for but ended up with some self hosted service simply because I can't properly limit my monetary risk here.
They are working on it
Source : post on x from an employee
Side note: the bills from cloudflare are much lower than the ones from AWS/Vercel when there's a mistake. The most I saw passing by was 150€, with Vercel and AWS > 10 k.
I think it is possible.
I was reading the pricing page for workers and here is what it says there:
> To prevent accidental runaway bills or denial-of-wallet attacks, configure the maximum amount of CPU time that can be used per invocation by defining limits in your Worker's Wrangler file, or via the Cloudflare dashboard (Workers & Pages > Select your Worker > Settings > CPU Limits).
Link: end of example 4 section: https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/platform/pricing/