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Tell HN: Google Cloud suspended our production projects at 1am on Saturday
TLDR; never use google cloud systems for production.<p>Google cloud suspended all our projects due to the billing issue in their system they had.<p>Despite reassurances "your account will not be suspended" while communicating with billing support, all the projects were suspended at 1am on Saturday.<p>All the account payments were made and the billing cards are valid. There are no outstanding bills.<p>Never use GCP for production.<p>----
Edit: full story by request, long read:
----<p>Previous month billing didn't went through. Not sure if this was due to the billing outage google had (https://status.cloud.google.com/products/oLCqDYkE9NFWQVgctQTL/history) or financial transaction issue, however we went ahead and made a manual payment covering all the outstanding amount + extra. Despite the payment made, about a week+ later we suddenly started receiving threatening emails "Your Projects are at risk of suspension". Edited and updated the billing cards. Opened a billing support request clearly mentioning this is a production environment and all the bills are paid. They were "investigating" the issue and assured the project will not be suspended.
Tell HN: Google Cloud suspended our production projects at 1am on Saturday
TLDR; never use google cloud systems for production.<p>Google cloud suspended all our projects due to the billing issue in their system they had.<p>Despite reassurances "your account will not be suspended" while communicating with billing support, all the projects were suspended at 1am on Saturday.<p>All the account payments were made and the billing cards are valid. There are no outstanding bills.<p>Never use GCP for production.<p>----
Edit: full story by request, long read:
----<p>Previous month billing didn't went through. Not sure if this was due to the billing outage google had (https://status.cloud.google.com/products/oLCqDYkE9NFWQVgctQTL/history) or financial transaction issue, however we went ahead and made a manual payment covering all the outstanding amount + extra. Despite the payment made, about a week+ later we suddenly started receiving threatening emails "Your Projects are at risk of suspension". Edited and updated the billing cards. Opened a billing support request clearly mentioning this is a production environment and all the bills are paid. They were "investigating" the issue and assured the project will not be suspended.
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Hi HN,<p>During lockdown I took up the keyboard hobby but I couldn't find anything I liked the aesthetic of. So I set out to design my own keyboard from scratch that shunned the gamer look in favour of a more minimal, serious design.<p>I've built several prototypes but I would love to get some feedback from the HN community.
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