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Re: Alphabet selling Google Domains assets to Squarespace

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Post by jiveturkey »

TX81Z wrote: post #272
DLA wrote: post #204

Yet another business Google bails on. Add that to the pile. Gee wonder why Google Cloud is getting smashed by AWS and Azure—maybe because nobody trusts Google to not flake out on that business or key products within it. They need some management changes!

This makes zero sense, you could previously buy a domain, email hosting, and a web host in a single shopping cart more or less.

That will apparently still be the case.

> Upon closing, Squarespace, a long- time reseller of Google Workspace, will become the exclusive domains provider for any customer purchasing a domain along with their Workspace subscription from Google directly for a minimum of three years.

Re: Alphabet selling Google Domains assets to Squarespace

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Post by popinman322 »

jaxn wrote: post #310
DaiPlusPlus wrote: post #294

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> It’s a shame, I wish there was a cloud provider that I actually liked I'm curious what it is about Azure that puts you off.

I’m on Azure, it’s still Microsoft. I like a lot of Microsoft stuff these days that plays nice with open source dev tools. Azure doesn’t get in the way of that, but my defaults are not their defaults. I’m perfectly happy with AKS. Their Postgres product is great (formerly citus). But at the the end of the day, they still want to sell Windows, Exchange, SQL Server, Active Directory, etc. That’s a choice I will probabl…

Active Directory is actually pretty good I think. Having worked with both Azure and AWS, AzureAD makes AWS IAM permissions feel half baked.

Granted my experience was inside Azure so we had the benefit of vertical integration.

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Post by simonw »

Jacky4Chan wrote: post #335
eek2121 wrote: post #199

Me with 100+ domains with Google: chuckles I'm in danger! I should have known. I started a transition for most of my stuff to cloudflare anyway. I kind of figured this would come eventually.

what do you mean by "in danger"?

It's a Simpsons meme: https://amp.knowyourmeme.com/memes/ralph-in-danger

In this case the danger is having to take tedious action to migrate 100 domains, or suffer from a small price increase x100 = a big price increase.

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Post by schemescape »

ricardonunez wrote: post #265
DLA wrote: post #204

Yet another business Google bails on. Add that to the pile. Gee wonder why Google Cloud is getting smashed by AWS and Azure—maybe because nobody trusts Google to not flake out on that business or key products within it. They need some management changes!

I’m still surprised why Fi has not been dropped even with many customer support issues.

Any bets on when Google Voice will be shutdown?

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Post by Masema »

monero-xmr wrote: post #295
jay_kyburz wrote: post #241

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Google seems to have bailed on Google Cloud. You should try and find something in the docs these days. When I first started using GAE 10 years ago it really felt like somebody lovingly crafted a nice solution to a complex problem. It's not that anymore.

They still offer startups money to switch. Last year they offered my company 8 figures to go from AWS to GCP. Of course I said no because… that’s insane and useless. You have to wonder how many companies they are paying to use their subpar tech.

8 figures of what, doll hairs?

Seriously, 10s of millions wasn't worth switching?

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Post by hackmehoff33 »

DLA wrote: post #204

Yet another business Google bails on. Add that to the pile. Gee wonder why Google Cloud is getting smashed by AWS and Azure—maybe because nobody trusts Google to not flake out on that business or key products within it. They need some management changes!

This! Google has a history and present strategy of making reactive moves to please shareholders. I’m shocked the masses trust them with email. When can we go back to decentralized self-hosted?

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Post by katbyte »

delecti wrote: post #322
jay_kyburz wrote: post #303

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm living that now. I will no longer be able to push changes to my Python 2.7 apps as of January. Instead of porting to Python 3, I'm porting away from Google.

Python 2.7 released 14 years ago. About 8.5 years ago (5+ years later), it was announced that Python 2.7 would be supported until 2020. You had over 5 years to prepare for it, and then Google supported it for another 3 years beyond even that generous warning.

So?

Let’s say you had an old large code base in 100,000s of lines of code that just works and has been mostly untouched for years in eol/maintenance. you expect there to be budget or time to rewrite it into python 3 for literally no reason other then “2.7 is deprecated”?

It’s far cheaper, potentially millions cheaper, to just change clouds/providers and find a way to continue on 2.7.

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Post by steve_adams_86 »

DaiPlusPlus wrote: post #294
steve_adams_86 wrote: post #276

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interesting, I first used GCP maybe 7 years ago and really liked it. Two years ago I came back to it for a year and couldn’t put my finger on it, but it seemed quite a bit worse. I wasn’t sure if it was a case of rose tinted glasses. Like you mentioned, the docs were really shoddy when I needed them. Certain conventions felt half baked compared to AWS, and I don’t even like AWS to begin with. Overall it seemed like t…

> It’s a shame, I wish there was a cloud provider that I actually liked I'm curious what it is about Azure that puts you off.

I should have been clear. I’ve barely used Azure. I helped a team migrate to it from AWS a while ago, and that went really well for a few reasons but the platform didn’t really grab me. Maybe that’s because I’m just not interested in delving into yet another platform and I should give it more of a chance.

Comparable infrastructure on Azure somehow ended up costing that team around 60% of what their AWS setup cost which was a bit confusing. Their monthly spend went from $900 CAD to about $650. I never had a chance to dig deep on that, but I assume that before there was something clumsy happening with allowing expensive resources to live too long or something. It was a big difference for such a small company though.

I’m not sure if that’s a thing (Azure being cheaper) but it made me think I should do price comparisons there next time I have a budget conscious client who isn’t already partial to another platform.

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Post by steve_adams_86 »

popinman322 wrote: post #342
jaxn wrote: post #310

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’m on Azure, it’s still Microsoft. I like a lot of Microsoft stuff these days that plays nice with open source dev tools. Azure doesn’t get in the way of that, but my defaults are not their defaults. I’m perfectly happy with AKS. Their Postgres product is great (formerly citus). But at the the end of the day, they still want to sell Windows, Exchange, SQL Server, Active Directory, etc. That’s a choice I will probabl…

Active Directory is actually pretty good I think. Having worked with both Azure and AWS, AzureAD makes AWS IAM permissions feel half baked. Granted my experience was inside Azure so we had the benefit of vertical integration.

AWS IAM is one of the worst AWS products I’ve used. I should take a look at AD.
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