ServerlessHorrors

Stories you never want to feel on your own skin

ServerlessHorrors is a simple blog where you can read all the horror stories of serverless. Yikes!


Made by Andras who is working on an open-source & self-hostable Heroku / Netlify / Vercel alternative called Coolify.


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New 17 Jan 2025

$70,000.69

You pay $50/month for your project, but one day you woke up to a $70,000 bill...

New 13 Jan 2025

$22.639,69

I received an insanely bill of 22k USD today from simply using BigQuery on a public data set in the playground...

New 13 Jan 2025

$250/month

9.000 page visits and I have to pay $250/month for it, that is $3000/year...

New 6 Jan 2025

$1273.69

We asked Devin (AI) to make a change in our codebase....

New 5 Jan 2025

$530.19

Never had to pay anything and suddenly im billed $530....

1 Sep 2024

$383.69

Woke up to an almost $400 bill for my documentation site...

25 Jun 2024

$103.26

Why $103 is a horror story? Well, imagine that you are on a free tier...

New 6 Jun 2024

$96,280.69

So freaking speechless right now....

26 May 2024

$120,000.420

Cloudflare took down our website after trying to force us to pay 120k$ within 24h...

29 Apr 2024

$1,300.69

Imagine you create an empty, private AWS S3 bucket in a region of your preference...

10 Mar 2024

$11,000.69

Sent $11k worth of emails during DoS attack, then lost my database...

27 Feb 2024

$104,500.123

So I received an email from Netlify last weekend saying that I have a $104,500.00 bill overdue...

13 Feb 2024

$23,000.420

What is happening?! Someone spammed EchoFox and spiked my Vercel bill to $23k and caused 56k+ accounts and trials...

5 Apr 2023

$3,000.69

Attention Vercel users. Be careful what you test or deploy to Vercel. I decided to try out...

14 Jan 2023

$620.123

My sitemap.txt used hundreds of GB/hours apparently...

27 Mar 2020

$72,000.999

We Burnt $72K testing Firebase + Cloud Run and almost went Bankrupt...