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forsalebypwner: an exorbitant Workers Containers charge with no usage visibility.
In a Hacker News comment, forsalebypwner says that one month they were charged exorbitantly for Workers Container usage and that there was no way to monitor or track usage until the invoice arrived.
What happened
- Reported cause
- Unknown
- Incident date
- Date not recorded
- First reported
- 2026-10-10
- Billing outcome
- Not recorded
- Case progress
- Not established
- Public Cloudflare reply
- Not linked
Latest reported outcome
No billing action is reported.
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Author describes the Containers charge
Open original sourceThe author says a month of Workers Container usage was charged exorbitantly with no way to track usage before the invoice.
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