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		umanwizard on Aug 23, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Accident Forgiveness Giving people the ability to use caps as an optional feature doesn’t force anyone to use it. Also, you could turn things off in the inverse order they were turned on until the cap is satisfied. So all the crypto miner instances would be turned off before database backups being deleted.

Aeolun on Aug 24, 2024 [–]

When you go over the cap everything turns off, otherwise, what’s the point?

Should you turn things off until you reach a certain spend rate? Then you can set your cap high enough for your server +1, but no more.

umanwizard on Aug 24, 2024 | [–]

I was imagining the cap would be a rate, not a total.

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