u/Ok_Indication_3656

On the side after work I've been experimenting a bit with aws cloud launching my own apps and website (its mostly for hobby/for fun not really expecting income but maybe one day)

anyways, one of my website a couple months ago was hit by a bot attack which made my netlify monthly bill go from $20 to $140 in one day

Which spooked me im not going to lie. And my knowledge of devops thing is so limited that I had to resort to asking ai to help debug this. We found that there was 8 million botted requests sent to my frontend website and on my .netify.app link netlify does not give you ddos protection unless you pay extra. My actual domain was protected by cloudfare rate limit I didnt even know I had this secondary domain for that website. Anyways that was useful discovery now I feel safer about netlify at least.

I don't really want to give up this hobby. Is there anyway to get predictable billing I don't even mind if they shutdown my app if it exceeds usage. I read that fly.io is based on credit usage. Is that good for backend?

Out of 9 boxes, there's usually 1 with 300 points, 1 with 100 points, and the rest with very low points. I've opened maybe 8–9 boxes total and never landed on either of the high-value ones.

I'm not saying that's statistically surprising given the small sample size. But I'm curious: does each box have an equal 1/9 chance, or are the high-value boxes weighted much lower, like a 1/1000 chance? Has anyone used this site long enough to get a sense of the actual odds?

Is Brawl gone for good? I used to play it as a warm up since the games were quick and low stakes, didn't really care if I won or lost. Swift is kind of similar but it throws off your feel for the game going back to regular ranked, everything feels so different. Like you get used to seeing 2 dragons, not falling behind, etc. I guess Aram exist but I like practising my main champs instead of getting hit with a random one.