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How does the average person recover from this? One screw up and it’s bankruptcy?

• poly2it 1y ago
  Not sure what their finances are looking like, but they seem to have had a premium service with paying users. The service author said this in regard to their bill: > GCP seems to finally be budging with regard to the bill. They acknowledged the DDoS and are running it through the bureaucracy. I do have some confidence that they'll make this right, but I took destructive actions to stop the charges (deleting buckets). I did have a mostly complete backup of customer data on another cloud, but this has destroyed small business side hustle, where I built a community of over 100,000 users over seven years. https://www.reddit.com/r/googlecloud/comments/1jzoi8v/ddos_attack_facing_100000_bill/ https://www.reddit.com/r/googlecloud/comments/1jzoi8v/ddos_a... They left a message on their site: http://simmer.io/ http://simmer.io/. And just yesterday, they launched their new side hustle: https://stopuncappedbilling.com/ https://stopuncappedbilling.com/.
  • TheRoccoB 1y ago
    This is basically accurate. Google is working with me on the bill. I don't really want to give details on that, as the conversation is ongoing. Hint: it's not easy and far from resolved.
  • TheRoccoB 1y ago
    Company was "profitable" if you count the 3000 hours of engineering I did as free, haha. Paid firebase bill with a little bit extra. Beer money, not money money.