>However, Coolify’s explosive growth in 2024 suggests we’re witnessing a different level of adoption and impact on the wider software community.

This worries me about the state of Github more than anything else. For the past couple years now we've been seeing these "viral" repos that catch on for one reason or another, get tens of thousands of stars in a few months (in part due to posts like this), and then languish. Time was that a few thousand Github stars really meant something; that a project had steadily gained support over years and was at a place that was production ready for the masses. Not so anymore.

A kill switch seems a practical and trivial solution. E.g. something toggled when a monthly bill exceeds a configurable amount.

I’m guessing many hobby users would set that to $100, end of story.

I don’t understand why it’s so unpopular to offer that. I’d imagine the providers would benefit too in the long run.

I agree, especially because I'm not even sure the pushed competitor solves the problem that's being highlighted here.

All the horror stories so far seem to be about people using a lot of metered resources, like bandwidth, and then getting billed for those resources.

With the pushed competitor you can self-host your Vercel or Netlify alternative on your own EC2 instance - but then if someone downloads 60 terabytes worth of data from you, you still get to pay for that bandwidth. You still get an unexpected large bill.

It used to be we will take your server down. Now its we'll DDOS your serverless website and leave you a 100k bill.

I'm not sure how sustainable such business model is. When you owned the server, you could unplug it. Now you have no way of knowing if somebody is going to hit your /api a million times per minute

Something feels a bit off about the creator of this site also pushing a competitor. On one hand, they're upfront about it, and on the other.. they're upfront about it. At least it might prompt the companies in question to be a bit less scummy.