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So they had backups on the exact same service live data was on. Not even a separate account. Yeah, i dont feel sorry at all, learn to do backend.

Who doesn't have re-deployable backups?

@ganjaman I only trust backups that I have on my own physical media - and for the most important ones with years of work, several of them in different places. I couldn't care less whether my hosting provider loses data or whatever. Restore is just one push away.

@maushax and I hope this startup goes out of business as soon as possible because they don't have their shit together even on basic level. Any Fortune 500 company doing any business with them beyond black jack and hookers would be fucked.

what kind of startup working for fortune 500 companies has a single dev that also does the devops?

@maushax I hope you know exactly what happened between the two parties.

@jesustricks 🤔"I" have no idea....
I'm going to walk away slowly now.

@jesustricks probably one in the high 400s where the fortune has grown so thin that fortune masks dropped out of the ceiling.

@maushax they are both at fault here tbh, not having separate backups (a fucking raspi and a hdd would be perfectly fine, thats not even 100$) is really fucking unpreofessional and to me, it just sounds like they tried to cut the cost of an ops guy with using DO

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@Frederick Yes they managed to get their service back after begging on Twitter lol

@ganjaman Yes that’s right. DO can’t be blamed for this but their whole policy of dealing with load spikes is shitty as hell for the developers.

I can understand that digital ocean would want to stop VMs that aren't complying to their terms, but the account shouldn't lock. It should kindly stop those droplets and send an email. At least the first time. If it happens again in say 24h, sure lock it (partially; people need their data)

Yea it's stupid of them to ONLY have digitalocean, and no backups and no AWS instances ready to go in case of emergency. But also DO is a big company, serving other big companies. This shouldn't have happened the way it did.

Who the fuck writes a thread in Twitter. Use medium or whatnot and don't write a bazillion comments on your tweet

@Alice but why force your essay on a platform that is designed for short messages? Why not use one that's more suited and maybe just link to it? What has happened to the world, is everyone stupid?

@Froot absolute fucking retards, thats who

@Froot That is why there are bots on Reddit that make it readable. Such a pain otherwise.

@Froot The whole point was not a discussion, but to gain attention from Digital Ocean as the startup wasn't content with how the regular support had been handling this so far.

Shitstorming on Twitter is quite a popular way these days to force companies to notice you. Not because they care about you, but about millions of others who might not become customers.

Yeah and Twitter has more reach than Reddit.

This will be more loud that their ads in every corner of the internet