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This. Also, while I have no clue what happened in the OP's case, many of these "Google nuked my account for no reason at all!" stories turn out to have darn go

• atoav 6y ago
  I understand that there might be two sides to these stories, but I don't get how anybody ever would rely fully on Google for their companies mission critical infrastructure unless it is something like a lemonade stand. If you have a specific contract with Google that manages reliability/availability sufficiently that would be sth. else, but who has that? It may be that I am out of touch with the other HN users on this one, but "$megacorp does something that on purpose/accidentally blocks my service" doesn't surprise me at all. That the megacorp is legally in the right on their own turf is even less unsurprising and not the point. There is a price to not running your own infrastructure and this price becomes tangible when something like this happens for whatever reason.
  • tpoacher 6y ago
    Indeed. OP is painfully finding out why the visible costs of using open alternatives are massively outweighed by the hidden costs of not using them.
• vfclists 6y ago
  If you had a point to make you wouldn't be using a new throwaway account.