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Sitemap polling: the author reports a $100 Cloudflare bill alongside AWS costs.
@enzyme_dev says a refactor made Workers fetch a sitemap every five seconds. In an October 6 reply, he reports a $100 Cloudflare bill and an AWS bill above $800 for the previous week.
What happened
- Reported cause
- Repeated polling
- Incident date
- Date not recorded
- First reported
- 2026-10-04 13:41 UTC
Latest reported outcome
The author reports $100 for Cloudflare and over $800 for AWS in a later reply. His earlier thread describes the August sitemap refactor.
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Case timeline
Sitemap polling and quota exhaustion
Read on 𝕏The author says Workers fetched a sitemap every five seconds after an August refactor, alongside higher AWS bandwidth costs.
船长
@enzyme_dev · Original 𝕏 post
我也被 gpt sol坑了 8月份的时候蛋疼想做一个重构 重构完之后部署，看起来正常 节前月底的时候看服务器账单我给气炸了 本来 aws 的费用已经被我优化到了100刀一个月 上个月直接涨到了700刀 我一看，好家伙，全部是带宽费用 他就是为了保证数据能够完全同步 CF 每5秒来 api 服务器请求一次 sitemap… https://t.co/wWMyGTGefa pic.twitter.com/eYHhoKj1Sn
Later reply gives a CF amount
Read on 𝕏On October 6, the author reports a $100 Cloudflare bill and an AWS bill above $800 for the previous week.
船长
@enzyme_dev · Original 𝕏 post
摸摸 我也是被 codex 坑了 上周 aws 800多刀、CF 100刀的账单
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