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Fraud. You get X amount of quota (YY cores or ZZ bytes of GCS) per project. So while we charge you ASAP these days, if you can create 1000 projects you can hav

by boulos 9y ago

Fraud. You get X amount of quota (YY cores or ZZ bytes of GCS) per project. So while we charge you ASAP these days, if you can create 1000 projects you can have 25000 cores even if your fake credit card will bounce or bounce after it charges more than say $10. It totally sucks to have to deal with this, but it basically costs almost $0 to get a fake credit card or a stolen one that'll pass for at least a few bucks. So this means your getting started experience has friction due to the folks that would like to burn our precious cores for whatever the most valuable coin mining is.

bdcravens 9y ago
I get the concurrent limit. My biggest frustration has always been the turnaround time to delete a project and free up a slot.
- boulos 9y ago
  That's so you (or someone in your organization) have the human time to undelete. Perhaps an rm -f option would be handy, but like that flag risky ;).
fomojola 9y ago
I eventually figured it out: once I created a separate billing project not attached to the free trial credit and attached it to my account I was able to proceed. I mean: totally understand the fraud issue. Incredibly deceptive error message though. Just say what you need so I can be objective about the next step I should take: I already had multiple credit cards and bank accounts attached to the payment profile, but it took me nearly 2 hours to figure out that "you've reached your quota" means "you need to create a billing account that doesn't have free credit attached". Free advice, so worth what you paid: your experience here would be WORLDS better with a simple "Upgrade your account" button that runs the $10 charge or whatever you've decided is required for forward progress. That said: once I was past that gate, progress was swift, so there is that. Worth the money: you just need to make it straightforward to take my money.
- boulos 9y ago
  I'll see if I can find the error string in the console about that (we should state the why). There are (used to be?) Upgrade your account things all over the place, but perhaps your setup was sufficiently mixed mode to have the limit yet not the prompt? Feel free to email me (contact in profile) your project number and I'll attach it to a bug.

by boulos 9y ago

bdcravens 9y ago

I get the concurrent limit. My biggest frustration has always been the turnaround time to delete a project and free up a slot.

boulos 9y ago
That's so you (or someone in your organization) have the human time to undelete. Perhaps an rm -f option would be handy, but like that flag risky ;).

fomojola 9y ago

I eventually figured it out: once I created a separate billing project not attached to the free trial credit and attached it to my account I was able to proceed. I mean: totally understand the fraud issue. Incredibly deceptive error message though. Just say what you need so I can be objective about the next step I should take: I already had multiple credit cards and bank accounts attached to the payment profile, but it took me nearly 2 hours to figure out that "you've reached your quota" means "you need to create a billing account that doesn't have free credit attached". Free advice, so worth what you paid: your experience here would be WORLDS better with a simple "Upgrade your account" button that runs the $10 charge or whatever you've decided is required for forward progress. That said: once I was past that gate, progress was swift, so there is that. Worth the money: you just need to make it straightforward to take my money.

boulos 9y ago
I'll see if I can find the error string in the console about that (we should state the why). There are (used to be?) Upgrade your account things all over the place, but perhaps your setup was sufficiently mixed mode to have the limit yet not the prompt? Feel free to email me (contact in profile) your project number and I'll attach it to a bug.