Readit Newsthecodemonkey commented on A $1k AWS mistake geocod.io/code-and-coordi... · Posted by u/thecodemonkey
Does Amazon refund you for mistakes, or do you have to land on HN frontpage for that to happen?
Hahaha. I'll update the post once I hear back from them. One could hope that they might consider an account credit.
thecodemonkey commented on A $1k AWS mistake geocod.io/code-and-coordi... · Posted by u/thecodemonkey
You probably saved me a future grand++. Thanks
That was truly my hope with this post! Glad to hear that
thecodemonkey commented on A $1k AWS mistake geocod.io/code-and-coordi... · Posted by u/thecodemonkey
Just $1,000? Thems rookie numbers, keep it up, you'll get there (my wallet won't, ow).
Haha, yep we were lucky to catch this early! It could easily have gotten lost with everything else in the monthly AWS bill.
thecodemonkey commented on Keeping our free tier sustainable by preventing abuse geocod.io/code-and-coordi... · Posted by u/thecodemonkey
Where can we get a blocklist of those throwaway email domains?
or perhaps a really big whitelist of good ones? that would be extremely helpful!
There's a couple of great open source projects[1][2][3] that try to keep up-to-date lists of domains that belong to disposable email providers.
I would probably not recommend implementing a whitelist for blocking purposes. But perhaps domains on a whitelist could get a slight scoring bump.
[1] https://github.com/disposable-email-domains/disposable-email... [2] https://github.com/disposable/disposable [3] https://github.com/unkn0w/disposable-email-domain-list
thecodemonkey commented on Keeping our free tier sustainable by preventing abuse geocod.io/code-and-coordi... · Posted by u/thecodemonkey
very cool, I wasn't expecting to find this so interesting. I yesterday for the first time thought about the "abuse the free tier" actors. I was trying to use a batching job service which limited free-tier batch sizes to 5, which was so low that it took away the point from using the automated job in the first place. I think the little info box explained that they keep the limit low to prevent abuse, and I started thinking about other ways they could prevent that abuse. Your post was very topical. thanks for sharing!
Thanks for giving it a read!
We are primarily using Hetzner for the self-serve version of Geocodio and have been a very happy customer for decades.