garlandcrow

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Ask HN: DoNotPay siphoning from bank account, recourse?
10 points by garlandcrow 6y ago|9 comments
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by garlandcrow 7y ago
This same experience happened to me 6mos ago as well, actually I tend to read this online every month or so. No response from them for weeks, they without warning locked and deleted all instances, data, backups, everything. It wasn't u
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by garlandcrow 8y ago
Hey drcongo, I'll tell you anything you want to know about my case either public or private. At least in Tokyo I know plenty of people who are running PG on DO in a docker instances and just doing backups on DO cause its cheaper than s
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by garlandcrow 8y ago
Thanks for the message, I will send you an email with the details if you want to look into it. I'll gladly add any resolution etc to the write-up I am doing. Thanks.
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by garlandcrow 8y ago
I don't know about other providers, but I don't how the handling of any false positive from flagging is to not give any warning beforehand, destroy all instances, and not even give a courtesy mail after destroying all instances an
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by garlandcrow 8y ago
Hi had heard a few stories like this here too but I figured it was people doing spamming or gambling or something like that. We are a biotech startup and also around $1k per month with our usage, and it was completely shocking.
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by garlandcrow 8y ago
Agreed, I have contacted them before over the 2 years and always they responded quickly. They responded w/in 24hrs and said that someone from "security and trust" team would review and get back to me, and that response took 5
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by garlandcrow 8y ago
You have to have a data layer stored somewhere, are you saying to not store it on digital ocean? All this is a moot point when they destroy your instances and lock your account...
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by garlandcrow 8y ago
Oh, I did have backups luckily off of DigitalOcean (I will have full details in my post), but I have a huge problem with them marketing how great they are to startups and having a backups product that they sell (and also nuked). Any company
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Ask HN: DigitalOcean Destroyed All My Data, Any Legal Recourse?
41 points by garlandcrow 8y ago|23 comments