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Ah yes, it was the customer's fault. Stupid customer using method recommended by service provider.
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Generally, all cloud providers have two ways of engaging with and billing customers. One is using a credit card, which is very easy for getting started. The other one is having an established relationship with a sales / account team and setting up billing by invoice. Smaller companies sometimes don't understand that and stick with credit card billing for too long. Once you move to production and have your own custome…
Google doesn't care about you. Escalate enough, and they will also block your personal account, deleting all your emails+photos in the process.
Friends don't let friends run production software on Google services.
Seeing all these horror stories, I can't help but wonder when people are going to switch back to on prem, or at least some hybrid. It's pretty apparent we can't trust cloud providers...
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Unregulated banking tend to have a bit more ponzi schemes, pump and dump, and money laundering than regulated banking. Unregulated auto tend to have a bit more lemon markets than regulated auto. Unregulated healthcare tend to have a bit more snake oil, blood letting and cocaine than regulated healthcare. Unregulated food sector tend to have a bit more Listeria and Salmonella then regulated food sector. No regulation…
I did not argue that regulation is unnecessary or bad. The argument is that regulation of Big Industries does not bring you better support nor makes the companies more focused in treating customers as individuals.
At the company I work for, we are seriously evaluating moving off of AWS (about ~$10k/mo bill).
This is not going to fly.
Generally, all cloud providers have two ways of engaging with and billing customers. One is using a credit card, which is very easy for getting started. The other one is having an established relationship with a sales / account team and setting up billing by invoice. Smaller companies sometimes don't understand that and stick with credit card billing for too long. Once you move to production and have your own custome…
I'm very happy Hetzner has all these options built in from the very start. There's no need to make any "extra effort". Actually, most of my servers are on yearly billing to make things even easier for everybody.
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I fully agree that automakers should be held responsible. However, I am feeling a bit of negative sentiment here. What does 'properly' mean? There has been court cases that have been decided against them. Sure there is always more. But this sounds a bit like whatabotism. Also there is a high probability of defeat devices in Citroen, Dacia, Fiat, Ford and Honda cars as well. It is however true that the EU create a hug…
"Properly" means that the automakers should pay a fine per vehicle sold that was producing more emissions than allowed, and that fine should be so high as to effectively get them into bankruptcy. It should also put in jail anyone that was aware of the violation and did not report to the authorities. Everyone , from the CEO to the test engineer who knew about the cheating devices. Anything less than that and all you a…