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Murfie died because of Google cloud costs. It's a bit of a long story, but from what I was able to piece together, a Google cloud service provider recommended

Murfie died because of Google cloud costs. It's a bit of a long story, but from what I was able to piece together, a Google cloud service provider recommended some changes to the way the storage was done to save money. Mostly, because of those changes they got hit by a surprise $30,000 bill for data egress. It was basically the last straw for a company that wasn't profitable due mostly to cloud costs. It killed the company. That's why I had to step in to try to save them.

unity1001 4y ago
> data egress Google, AWS are still charging people mid-2000s bandwidth prices. Its outrageous. Digitalocean's egress price is 1/10th of Google's cheaper egress pricing. Same with Hetzner. And with Hetzner dedicated servers? Its unmetered.
- mrtksn 4y ago
  If I recall correctly, there was a story on HN about Hetzner threatening to shut down an "unmetered" server for using too much bandwidth. here it is: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32242987 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32242987
  - unity1001 4y ago
    From the discussion: > - The link says "my friend got this", so even the person who authored that post isn't claiming to have received this notice. This is a second hand report, at best. For all we know, their friend received this notice years ago, and mentioned it to the OP, who didn't realize it was old news. There have been people confirming in recent HN discussions that they were using full 1gbps of their dedicated box for a while since Hetzner declared their true-unmetered policy a year or so ago.
    - nijave 4y ago
      There was a long discussion with multiple people getting emails on LowEndBox forums using around 250TB/month
Infernal 4y ago
As I read through this incredulously, I was relieved to slowly realize Murfie was a company, and not a person.
- thatwasunusual 4y ago
  Murfie was the virtual Muppet character who only existed in the cloud. :)
nwsm 4y ago
Does the customer data have a proper home yet or is it still sitting in the broken-into shipping containers?
- hbn 4y ago
  According to the owner's twitter, he's been repeatedly getting robbed. https://twitter.com/pontifier https://twitter.com/pontifier
- pontifier 4y ago
  Containers are repaired and under surveillance.
exikyut 4y ago
More details that I found about what Murfie is, and the rescue operation: https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/5/21121594/crossies-murfie-madison-wisconsin-arkansas-1-million-abandoned-cds https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/5/21121594/crossies-murfie-m... What a fascinating concept.

unity1001 4y ago

> data egress Google, AWS are still charging people mid-2000s bandwidth prices. Its outrageous. Digitalocean's egress price is 1/10th of Google's cheaper egress pricing. Same with Hetzner. And with Hetzner dedicated servers? Its unmetered.

mrtksn 4y ago
If I recall correctly, there was a story on HN about Hetzner threatening to shut down an "unmetered" server for using too much bandwidth. here it is: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32242987 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32242987
- unity1001 4y ago
  From the discussion: > - The link says "my friend got this", so even the person who authored that post isn't claiming to have received this notice. This is a second hand report, at best. For all we know, their friend received this notice years ago, and mentioned it to the OP, who didn't realize it was old news. There have been people confirming in recent HN discussions that they were using full 1gbps of their dedicated box for a while since Hetzner declared their true-unmetered policy a year or so ago.
  - nijave 4y ago
    There was a long discussion with multiple people getting emails on LowEndBox forums using around 250TB/month

Infernal 4y ago

As I read through this incredulously, I was relieved to slowly realize Murfie was a company, and not a person.

thatwasunusual 4y ago
Murfie was the virtual Muppet character who only existed in the cloud. :)

nwsm 4y ago

Does the customer data have a proper home yet or is it still sitting in the broken-into shipping containers?

hbn 4y ago
According to the owner's twitter, he's been repeatedly getting robbed. https://twitter.com/pontifier https://twitter.com/pontifier
pontifier 4y ago
Containers are repaired and under surveillance.

exikyut 4y ago

More details that I found about what Murfie is, and the rescue operation: https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/5/21121594/crossies-murfie-madison-wisconsin-arkansas-1-million-abandoned-cds https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/5/21121594/crossies-murfie-m... What a fascinating concept.