Question about billing data usage

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Hey this isn’t a coding issue. I’m new to coding and development. Im close to finishing my first Anvil App and my app will collect no data. So im assuming nothing is stored and I have also added some safety mechanisms into my client and server to prevent bad actors.

But my question is if for some reason data usage increases, does it stop once the limit is reached? Pretty much im asking if I will end up with a huge usage bill from a bad faith actor.

Additonal notes I am on the hobby plan but I was curious in general if theres some type of safety mechanism.

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If you aren’t collecting data, that means you don’t have Data Tables enabled for the app right? If so, there’s no data table provisioned for the app and so there’s nowhere for bad actors to add data.

Also, Anvil uses SQL DBs, so if for some reason a bunch of data were to be loaded, your app would just stop working, not give you a large usage bill like NoSQL DBs like Google Firebase or AWS. :slight_smile:

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