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Punch a Server<\/a> (via Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n

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Early today morning (28 June 2018) i receive an alert from Uptime Robot telling me my entire site is down. I receive a barrage of emails from Google saying there is some ‘potential suspicious activity’ and all my systems have been turned off. EVERYTHING IS OFF. THE MACHINE HAS PULLED THE PLUG WITH NO WARNING. The site is down, app engine, databases are unreachable, multiple Firebases say i’ve been downgraded and therefore exceeded limits.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

Customer service chat is off. There’s no phone to call. I have an email asking me to fill in a form and upload a picture of the credit card and a government issued photo id of the card holder. Great, let’s wake up the CFO who happens to be the card holder.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Bartłomiej Owczarek and Tomasz Nawrocki<\/a> (via Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n

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Google decided to make Maps its next billion dollar business by raising prices 14 times and decreasing free usage limit almost 30 times, all with minimal notice period.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

Map providers use different pricing models, which makes direct comparison of prices difficult. Here is an overview of the options for paid usage (not taking into account free usage allowance)[…]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Stephen Shankland<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Google Cloud Platform is particularly interesting to me because it’s a paid product: no divided loyalties between advertisers and users, when helping one audience can hurt the other. Paying customers means Google’s incentives are nicely aligned: make the product better.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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