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The only time I ever got an email from a real human at google was when I tried out google cloud for a weekend when it first came out. I had a detailed plan to b
by noad 6y ago
The only time I ever got an email from a real human at google was when I tried out google cloud for a weekend when it first came out. I had a detailed plan to benchmark different instance types and compare them to AWS for an upcoming project.
I got about two hours into this and my account was deactivated, one of the cloud engineers sent me a truly nasty email saying that bitcoin mining is not allowed on google cloud and I should stop abusing resources and being so irresponsible. I replied and asked how on earth they came to the conclusion I was a bitcoin miner and explained what I was actually doing, but never heard back from them again.
It was so bizarre, I felt like I was back in the 3rd grade getting in trouble for knowing more about the Apples than the computer teacher.
- NullPrefix 6y agoLooks a lot like the whole mobile unlimited data thing. Advertised as one thing, but once you start using it as advertised, provider starts crying about you being an unfair user. FFS, no one is forcing you to offer this or that package, but how dare you accuse people of defrauding you when they just use whatever you offered. Just offer VMs that have 10% CPU time and that's it.
- mayank 6y ago> I got about two hours into this and my account was deactivated, one of the cloud engineers sent me a truly nasty email saying that bitcoin mining is not allowed on google cloud and I should stop abusing resources and being so irresponsible. This is a pretty big claim. It would be grossly inappropriate if true. Do you have any evidence to back it up?
- ThePowerOfFuet 6y agoI can say that crypto mining is prohibited during the free trial (and there are heuristics to detect it).