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"Your static JavaScript, CSS, and images are automatically minified, optimized, and hosted globally on Google's Cloud" That's a non-starter for me. Google scre

by oblib 7y ago

"Your static JavaScript, CSS, and images are automatically minified, optimized, and hosted globally on Google's Cloud" That's a non-starter for me. Google screwed me hard years ago when I was using their Adwords. I can't forgive or forget that.

yingw787 7y ago
If it’s a static bundle, I think cloud deployment should be trivial...at worst they can add a feature to download a zip and sync to s3. I wouldn’t rule out this tool based on this fact alone.
- grun 7y ago
  Yep. Pep's definitely not married to Google nor its CDN. If Google precludes certain users, we'll switch to something that doesn't.
grun 7y ago
Huh. How did Google screw you? Pep's not married to Google's CDN. Which other CDN(s) do you, or would you prefer to, use over Google's? Thank you for weighing in.
- penagwin 7y ago
  Not op but Google has been known to ban accounts, even well established ones, for either stupid reasons(like an expired payment method) or unknown reasons, and there's very little you can do about it - other then make a HN post and hope some Google engineers can talk to the right people.
- oblib 7y ago
  It was a long time ago. I was advertising on Adwords and my ad was getting hit every few seconds. Whomever it was would go to the linked page from the ad and hit a few more pages within just a few seconds and then leave without spending enough time to even see those pages. The clicks were coming from more than just one IP address but it was same thing from all of them. I suspected it was a competitor paying some bogus group or bot network to run up my clicks and asked Google to look into it. They asked for my log files, which I sent them, but then told me "no problem found". It cost me several thousand dollars before I realized what was going on. I shut the ad down for a few months and then turned it back on but the same thing happened again right away. I tried again to get them to look into it but got the same response. I refused to pay for those ads and they buried my site in their rankings afterwards.

by oblib 7y ago

yingw787 7y ago

If it’s a static bundle, I think cloud deployment should be trivial...at worst they can add a feature to download a zip and sync to s3. I wouldn’t rule out this tool based on this fact alone.

grun 7y ago
Yep. Pep's definitely not married to Google nor its CDN. If Google precludes certain users, we'll switch to something that doesn't.

grun 7y ago

Huh. How did Google screw you? Pep's not married to Google's CDN. Which other CDN(s) do you, or would you prefer to, use over Google's? Thank you for weighing in.

penagwin 7y ago
Not op but Google has been known to ban accounts, even well established ones, for either stupid reasons(like an expired payment method) or unknown reasons, and there's very little you can do about it - other then make a HN post and hope some Google engineers can talk to the right people.
oblib 7y ago
It was a long time ago. I was advertising on Adwords and my ad was getting hit every few seconds. Whomever it was would go to the linked page from the ad and hit a few more pages within just a few seconds and then leave without spending enough time to even see those pages. The clicks were coming from more than just one IP address but it was same thing from all of them. I suspected it was a competitor paying some bogus group or bot network to run up my clicks and asked Google to look into it. They asked for my log files, which I sent them, but then told me "no problem found". It cost me several thousand dollars before I realized what was going on. I shut the ad down for a few months and then turned it back on but the same thing happened again right away. I tried again to get them to look into it but got the same response. I refused to pay for those ads and they buried my site in their rankings afterwards.