10 months ago
Hey yall, just a quick question, I'm on a grandfathered plan with the $5 waiver, and I've been told if my usage ever goes above $5 the grandfathered status is lost, so I figured I should set usage limits to prevent that unintentionally happening somehow.
My question is, would I be safe to set my hard limit at exactly $5, and the hard-shutdown is guaranteed to be accurate and not let it overflow a single cent and protect the grandfathered status, or can it be inaccurate and I should set it to something like $4.9 to be on the safe side? Thanks in advance and sorry for being overzealous if i am 😅
26 Replies
10 months ago
Wait hold up where are you seeing this?
10 months ago
if you have the $5 waiver you will keep the waiver. If you do go past $5 in usage, like $5.10, you only pay for the extra, which is $0.10
10 months ago
You wont lose waiver status once you breach above the waiver discount
🤔 i vaguely recall seeing a message in this server of someone saying something along the lines of that would happen (lose the waiver if go over), though i cant seem to find it on demand again now, discord search isnt good
i did find it weird that i couldnt find it properly documented anywhere though, but remained in doubt
if a staff could also confirm or deny this here to clear up this doubt then it would also be great, but even if you're correct, my original question remains with the purpose of avoiding getting accidentally billed for accidental extras regardless then
10 months ago
I don't know if they do have a maintenance requirement for the waiver. Like if you have gotten it, you must maintain your activity on the platform to continue utilzing the waiver
well ive definitely been using otherwise i wouldnt need to worry about usage 😂 so i'd be good on that
but yeah the whole grandfathered waiver status is really exists in a rather obscure limbo it seems, so it creates uncertainty about specifics on it for us users of it
10 months ago
This is intentionally made this way. This is to ensure you dont have bad actors who figure out the tricks and find loopholes around it
yeah i do understand that reasoning, its understandable, just a little unfortunate for genuine users too
10 months ago
honeslty if you know you do at least push something onto the platform I dont think i would be worried of losing waiver status. But I do agree on some assurances for users like us
mainly because, i had this insanity show up in my usage logs out of nowhere a few days ago

you can see my historical ram use was very stable so this was really unexpected
and it spooked me out by making the estimated usage skyrocket for a while <:uhhuh:554377618334679060>
so im mainly just trying to protect against another one like this happening for some mysterious reason and blowing up my usage fee over
10 months ago
did you at least check whcih service is consuming this memory footprint?
the only thing i did notice was, both memory spikes i got happened shortly after the automatic redeployments to Metal happened (for some reason i got 2 apparently, because i didnt do either of those 2 deploys you see here):

10 months ago
what are you deploying