We need a 'crash my sever' feature. This is my request to cloud providers. Let me explain. In the cloud, failure is cheap. You have a bad idea; you can build an app in the cloud without any funding and try it out. As it is a bad idea, it will probably fail, costing you next to nothing. No harm done. Yet, in the cloud, success is expensive. So expensive to the point of being dangerous for your company or even yourself. Moving from four users (the co-founders and respective mums) to thousands of users is not unheard of. And the price scales with the number of users. If you are expecting that, then well done. If what you just pubished is simply a nice piece of fun content, then you might be in for trouble. The good old past... In a long time past, we did not have the scroll of doom; we had Slashdot. A news aggregator for nerds. I would refresh their page every five minutes to stay on top of most things tech. And when a Slashdot news item would be about a cool amateur blog page, (hosted on a small server) that server would crash. You had been Slashdotted. Being slashdotted is very bad if you are a well-known brand, but is a source of pride if the server is under your desk. Now the bad (and good) about crashing servers is that when they crash, they do not serve traffic anymore. In pre-cloud times, that means that no one can see your wonderful article or download your song. And that's a pity, but no harm done. In the cloud, there is no 'being Slashdotted'. Your content will be served to everyone who asks for it, without limit. This boosts your stats, and gives you bragging rights, but there are no limits on how much it could cost you. So, dear cloud vendors, add a flag allowing my service to crash after a certain amount of cost or traffic. I prefer to be Slashdotted than in financial difficulties. Please crash my server.