WRT credit card see my reply to a sibling comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46191957 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46191957 Funny you mentio

WRT credit card see my reply to a sibling comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46191957 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46191957 Funny you mention OVH, their direct competitor Scaleway have a public Community slack open to anyone too. Even the engineers directly making the products can be pinged there, so it's great. But re: my comment, AFAIK they receive quite a bit of fake "I lost my account" inquiries. I've seen the behind the scenes, and in the case of hosting companies, it is self-defense rather than malice. Even some high-stakes SaaS it might be justified too. Though I agree that such restrictions are just user hostile in most cases.