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Incident Report: Railway Blocked by Google Cloud [resolved]
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#82Re: Incident Report: Railway Blocked by Google Cloud [resolved]
#83I wonder if someone has exploited a weird Google-safety automated process to report something on Railway which caused Google to block the whole thing.
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#84seriously, is it possible to trust GCP with critical data/services at this point if you're not a billion dollar company? I'm exaggerating but someone said they got "auto banned" what if that happens to a small account which hosts some really important data/services there?
> what if that happens to a small account which hosts some really important data/services there?
Pray to @dang that you will make the front page of HN?
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#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
That’s true, however having only few eggs and shopping for several baskets does not make sense in early days. Not sure how big railway is, but usually you start small with one egg.
You’d think they wouldn’t have started with GCP. There are plenty of datacenters where you can buy racks and racks of servers, and talk to a human when something goes wrong, and even walk in and access your servers. That’s what I’d be using if I were to build a Rackspace today.
Colo is worse than cloud when you're getting started. Sure, you can talk to a person but everything else is much lower quality. People are obsessed with having someone to yell at but yelling does not fix outages.
Re: Incident Report: Railway Blocked by Google Cloud [resolved]
#86seriously, is it possible to trust GCP with critical data/services at this point if you're not a billion dollar company? I'm exaggerating but someone said they got "auto banned" what if that happens to a small account which hosts some really important data/services there?
Even if you are a billion dollar company you still have problems like the Australian pension did. Google is just that bad.
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#87Re: Incident Report: Railway Blocked by Google Cloud [resolved]
#88This could kill a startup. I really don't like Google's automated and silent account murder functionality.
There’s no way this was automated or silent. The only reasonable explanation is Railway lost control of their estate and something was happening that warranted a group of humans to decide flipping the kill switch was the best of a set of bad alternatives.
You’re giving Google far more credit than they’ve earned.
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#89It has been 0 days since GCP has taken down a startup (again). You see this at least once a year. Never heard of this from AWS or Azure. In all seriousness, this is why we don't use them. They have the most ergonomic cloud of the big three, then absolutely murder it by having this kind of reputation.
AWS normally contacts you first.
Do they?
The only anecdotal thing I've seen is we hired a vendor to do a pentest a few years ago, and they setup some stuff in an AWS account and that account got totally yeeted out of existence by AWS if memory serves.
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#90Earlier quoted context omitted.
How to handle domains? The rest is easy, but your domain registrar blocking you sounds like a pain. My current solution is to use a local small provider, just for the domain. Then if there is a problem with your play account it is out of any blast radius.
MarkMonitor
Any changes since acquisition?
Looks like they were sold at the beginning of the year to a company without a Wikipedia page whose parent company doesn’t have one either https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markmonitor
Acquired in November 2022 by Newfold Digital, it was later announced that the firm would be sold to Com Laude, a company owned by PX3 Partners.
Edit-Private equity apparently https://px3partners.com
PX3 stands for purpose, passion, and performance. It is a pan-European private equity firm with headquarters in London. It invests behind transformative themes and targets companies operating within select segments of the business services, consumer and leisure, and industrials sectors with strong business fundamentals.