>>A sobering, but enlightening read:
>>
>>Original problem: http://blog.dreamhost.com/2008/01/15/um-whoops/
>>Follow-up with costs: http://blog.dreamhost.com/2008/03/21/good-reminiscing-friday/
>
>Also kind of amazing somebody would write a billing system with that kind of money involved that never had a prebilling report or at least something that popped up on the screen that said "You are about to bill 120,345 customers a total of $ 187,000,000 for the period ending Dec 31 2008."

It would probably cost them too much money to add that feature. :-)