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You should use separate accounts for a business. If you want to sell someday, you'll be glad that you don't need to go through your accounts and delete 35k pers

by xapata 10y ago

You should use separate accounts for a business. If you want to sell someday, you'll be glad that you don't need to go through your accounts and delete 35k personal emails.

eightysixfour 10y ago
Can't you add another admin email, log in to that, and remove your own? I don't use GCE so I'm asking seriously.
- sirn 10y ago
  You can actually do this by assigning another email as project owner.
- xapata 10y ago
  A buyer might pay more if they were confident you included all relevant information, including communication history.
sirn 10y ago
Yes, I agree that I should have a separate account for business. But my concern was that Google has a lot of products and services that I'm not sure where I might tripped the trigger that got my account suspended. For example, if my business email were hosted with G Suite, and my admin G Suite account got suspended for some random reason.
- Fiahil 10y ago
  Making separate accounts might not be enough considering they allegedly banned accounts related to each others by recovery address. Why would you think they would not do the same with accounts sharing occasionally the same laptop, the same ip address, and the same first and last name ? To my knowledge there is nothing preventing an automated banning machine to start firing at random on someone's accounts. And since, it appears, you have absolutely no recourse (except having friends working at google), and they are not held accountable for these "false positives"... You better start planning for it.
  - ganeshkrishnan 10y ago
    This comment was downvoted but is absolutely true. We had one startup account completely wiped out due to one dev having a banned gmail account. Their "Terms of Service" clearly says that the main account and "all related accounts" will be suspended

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You should use separate accounts for a business. If you want to sell someday, you'll be glad that you don't need to go through your accounts and delete 35k pers

by xapata 10y ago

You should use separate accounts for a business. If you want to sell someday, you'll be glad that you don't need to go through your accounts and delete 35k personal emails.

eightysixfour 10y ago
Can't you add another admin email, log in to that, and remove your own? I don't use GCE so I'm asking seriously.
- sirn 10y ago
  You can actually do this by assigning another email as project owner.
- xapata 10y ago
  A buyer might pay more if they were confident you included all relevant information, including communication history.
sirn 10y ago
Yes, I agree that I should have a separate account for business. But my concern was that Google has a lot of products and services that I'm not sure where I might tripped the trigger that got my account suspended. For example, if my business email were hosted with G Suite, and my admin G Suite account got suspended for some random reason.
- Fiahil 10y ago
  Making separate accounts might not be enough considering they allegedly banned accounts related to each others by recovery address. Why would you think they would not do the same with accounts sharing occasionally the same laptop, the same ip address, and the same first and last name ? To my knowledge there is nothing preventing an automated banning machine to start firing at random on someone's accounts. And since, it appears, you have absolutely no recourse (except having friends working at google), and they are not held accountable for these "false positives"... You better start planning for it.
  - ganeshkrishnan 10y ago
    This comment was downvoted but is absolutely true. We had one startup account completely wiped out due to one dev having a banned gmail account. Their "Terms of Service" clearly says that the main account and "all related accounts" will be suspended