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Comment: pay for use (Score 1) 191  by Seth024 (#45686085)
Attached to: Why Cloud Infrastructure Pricing Is Absurd  Is
there a cloud service provider that allows complete usage-based
payment? Where you don't select how much
storage/computing/bandwith you need when you select your plan
but at the end of the month you have to pay for whatever you
used.  Maybe my website only needs a few Mb/s of data transfer,
but if a video suddenly goes viral, the cloud provider can
automatically increase the bandwith to my website. And at the
end of the month I only have to pay for whatever data
upload/download I used. (and similar for cpu cycles, data
storage and memory use)  Comment: Finally. (Score 1) 88  by
Seth024 (#37184846) Attached to: Facebook Makes Privacy Settings
More Obvious  "Another change Facebook is introducing is
allowing users to modify the audience of a post after it's
published, which they couldn't do before."  Finally. Why did
this have to tak