• Dave.@aussie.zone
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    10 months ago

    I’m always a bit paranoid about my google compute account. Opened it many years ago, ran a few instances for a few dollars for a few months, had enough, oh look there’s no easy “delete just my google compute account” button.

    Unhooked all the payment methods, shut everything off, turned out the lights, but it seems I can’t leave the building.

    • hpca01@programming.dev
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      10 months ago

      Funny thing I had a paranoid freakout too before I got hacked on AWS, I had bought a visa gift card and that’s what I put in as a payment card on AWS. Of course they know where I live and could still screw me, but they would have to do it on their own dime.

      They make it really hard to leave or just use a specific service only. I use them for DNS, objectively it’s supposed to be cheap AF pay yearly, but now I have to pay $2 a month just to do all the auxiliary stuff to notify me that I got hacked.

      I’m buying a server rack soon and just got a full symmetric fiber line put in so I can do my own hosting.