How I spent nearly $100 on useless API calls

I have a modest homelab, only a few hundred gigabytes of content that doesn’t change often. Most of the content is not really that important, but I back it up anyways because, hey, storage costs are pretty low. I use BackBlaze B2, which is about $6/TB, which I am easily under. So you’ll image my surprise when my February bill came from BackBlaze, and it was for $103.91. Yup, I went from spending about $2.50, to over one hundred dollars in about a month. How? ...

23 February, 2026 · 4 min · Josiah McKay