Getting over the 100GB traffic allowance on Hobby account by Vercel

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Brown bear posted this in #help-forum

Brown bearOP

2023-10-28T10:48:55.000Z

What will happen if I select the Vercel's Hobby account option and then suddenly my project will be featured on Hacker News or some popular subreddit and I get over the 100GB monthly traffic limit in say 4 days instead of 30 days - as allowed by the rules. What will happen to my website? Will it go offline on the 4th day or what? Theoretically if each person will download 1MB that traffic is gone after 100_000 unique visitors. That's 25_000 uniques a day. Not so much if your project gets viral. My regular projects get 2000 uniques a day - and those are boring projects without any viral potential. Also we are talking about just 1 project. And you can have more live projects via the Hobby option right?

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Giant panda

2023-10-28T11:38:39.000Z

This is not a Next.js-specific question. Please reach out to Vercel's customer support directly if you want to know more. Details are listed in #vercel-help

@Giant panda This is not a Next.js-specific question. Please reach out to Vercel's customer support directly if you want to know more. Details are listed in <#1159366366860689519>

Brown bearOP

2023-10-28T15:56:01.000Z

Have you used Vercel?

Vercel doesn't have a specific discord room

They manage this one

only

The announcement section is Vercel team only.

Giant panda

2023-10-28T15:57:51.000Z

As I've mentioned. This Discord is not run by Vercel and not about Vercel. All platform-specific discussion occurs on their GitHub discussion board and via Customer Support which I suggested you to contact.

Brown bearOP

2023-10-28T15:58:09.000Z

Are you a bot?

Giant panda

2023-10-28T15:58:34.000Z

I am not.

Brown bearOP

2023-10-28T15:58:35.000Z

It's so hard these days to

find people who speak like humans

you sound like a guy on a support line using PhraseExpress or other text expander replies ðŸ˜

I am asking

because they

direct you

to using Vercel at the end

of every tutorial or page

and then they want your phone number

At least I haven't been able to finish the

registration

without providing the phone number

Giant panda

2023-10-28T16:01:42.000Z

It's there to prevent fraud.

A safety precaution.

Brown bearOP

2023-10-28T16:01:52.000Z

I get it.

And I will provide it

but I need some

guarantee

they want be asking me 1000 dollars or 5000 dollars if the traffic

or I don't know what else they want me to pay when I reach the limit

based on the phone number

Giant panda

2023-10-28T16:03:12.000Z

You are ignoring what I said earlier. You have platform-specific questions that customer support will be able to answer.

This is not the right place to ask any of this.

Brown bearOP

2023-10-28T16:03:42.000Z

finally you got back to your botness

thanks anyway