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Reddit · r/webhosting · 7 days ago

Has used DigitalOcean for years, finds it very reliable and has never needed to contact support because it has always just worked.

Reddit · r/webdev · 15 days ago

Stopped using Railway after security incidents and because prices skyrocketed once there was some traffic; now on cheaper Hetzner servers.

Reddit · r/AZURE · 16 days ago

They could not open a support ticket during the outage even as owner and creator of the subscription, getting through automated support agents only to be told to ask their provider to open it.

Reddit · r/AZURE · 16 days ago

They had about an hour of trouble with their SQL elastic pool in West Europe where the server was reachable but no tables were accessible.

Reddit · r/AZURE · 16 days ago

They saw not only SQL problems but also disconnected virtual machines during the West Europe incident, all of which came back later.

Reddit · r/AZURE · 16 days ago

Their AKS VMs were live migrated several times a week, which exposed a Redis client config issue causing latency and pod restarts. After tuning pings and keep-alives they have had no VM freeze in months.

Reddit · r/AZURE · 16 days ago

They ran a cluster of 40 then 120 nodes on Azure and hit network backplane flooding, fixed by bigger VMs and then API refactoring. They say Azure documents these best practices poorly.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 16 days ago

Liked not thinking about infrastructure on Railway, but recent downtime is a blocker and they are looking at self-hosting.

Reddit · r/AZURE · 17 days ago

They found the Azure health history still showed no event for their subscriptions during the West Europe incident and felt the status and health reporting is lacking.

Reddit · r/AZURE · 17 days ago

They saw no problem during the West Europe outage because their Azure SQL server is only privately accessible, which they suspect explains why others were hit.

Reddit · r/AZURE · 17 days ago

They had to restart a stuck elastic pool with eight databases during the incident, with SSMS not showing logins and a job looping on authentication.

Reddit · r/AZURE · 17 days ago

Their VMs sat on full servers with no capacity, so every small hiccup shuffled the whole rack slowly, and they eventually moved region.

Reddit · r/AZURE · 17 days ago

Their Windows VMs crashed right after provisioning with disk hardware errors and a month of work with support, including kernel dumps, got no result. They switched from spot to on-demand VMs at higher cost.

Reddit · r/AZURE · 17 days ago

They hit an Azure SQL outage in West Europe where connections failed intermittently and tables could not be listed in SSMS on the primary of their failover group, while the read-only failover copy looked fine.

Reddit · r/AZURE · 17 days ago

They could connect to their server but not browse the databases in their Azure SQL elastic pool, and restarting the pool failed with an internal server error while service health showed nothing.

Reddit · r/AZURE · 17 days ago

They lost metrics and databases during the West Europe elastic pool outage, a restore failed, and support gave no response for two hours beyond generic automated replies.

Reddit · r/webdev · 17 days ago

They chose Railway for its managed setup and infrastructure visualizer at a price close to a VPS, and say it is far cheaper than AWS for them, despite its reliability issues.

Reddit · r/AZURE · 18 days ago

For a month their AKS Linux VMs froze together with connectivity issues and support was not useful. Switching from Dasv6 to Dsv7 stopped the freezes but costs more.

Reddit · r/AZURE · 18 days ago

They lost invoice access entirely, and after weeks support told them to create another subscription for billing. First-line support just follows a script until a senior engineer gets involved.

Reddit · r/webdev · 18 days ago

They report essentially zero downtime in the 5 years their team has used Render.

Reddit · r/devops · 18 days ago

AI API key stolen via Railway; an Anthropic alert, not Railway, revealed it, and a spend cap limited the loss.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 20 days ago

As a student they used the $300 trial to host a Minecraft server on virtual machines and ended up with a $157 charge. Their billing account is closed and support redirects them to an automated assistant.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 20 days ago

With about a decade in cloud, they ran two startups on GCP and never had a billing or alerting issue.

Reddit · r/devops · 20 days ago

Railway is insanely fast to deploy with a nice UI, but security and reliability let them down; switching permanently.

Reddit · r/webdev · 21 days ago

After an earlier outage they moved their services from Railway to AWS. After the latest incident they cancelled their subscription, saying even the support page would not load.

Reddit · r/webdev · 21 days ago

Their team spent a full day rotating secrets after the Railway incident and lost count of the complaints in their chat.

Reddit · r/devops · 21 days ago

Beta site on Railway: Gemini key abused for about $2k in two hours, no notice from Railway, deleted all accounts.

Reddit · r/devops · 21 days ago

Started on Railway because it was easy and cheap, but two years of outages and the breach handling are pushing them off.

Reddit · r/devops · 21 days ago

On a 7-day Railway trial, could not deploy on day 3 and is not happy.

Reddit · r/devops · 21 days ago

Moved everything to Cloudflare; Railway's infrastructure stability was not consistent.

Reddit · r/webdev · 21 days ago

API credits drained despite usage limits after the Railway breach, and they could not redeploy for 30+ hours.

Reddit · r/devops · 21 days ago

Revoked an OpenAI key before it was used, but says Railway has had too many issues and will use a better-known host for sensitive apps.

Reddit · r/webdev · 22 days ago

They had downtime during the Railway incident while they redeployed their app on DigitalOcean, and do not plan to return.

Reddit · r/webdev · 22 days ago

They describe a Railway outage running toward 48 hours with their availability dropping from 99% to about 95%.

Reddit · r/webdev · 22 days ago

Their app got a big traffic boost from a podcast shoutout, but new users could not sign up and they could not deploy a fix because Railway deployments were down.

Reddit · r/webdev · 22 days ago

They say Railway's status page claimed slow builds while deployments were not working at all, even on the pro plan.

Reddit · r/webdev · 22 days ago

Railway asked them to change exposed variables but they could not deploy a new build, leaving their service inoperable.

Reddit · r/webdev · 22 days ago

They moved their Rails apps to DigitalOcean Kubernetes a few years ago using the Cuber gem and say it works perfectly.

Reddit · r/webdev · 22 days ago

They use Heroku for all their client work and say elsewhere they have had no issues in about 10 years.

Reddit · r/devops · 22 days ago

Cybersecurity worker says Railway was unreliable for six months before the env-var breach and is moving off.

Reddit · r/devops · 22 days ago

Solo founder's OpenAI and Anthropic keys were compromised; rotated them but could not deploy because Railway paused deployments.

Reddit · r/devops · 22 days ago

Anthropic disabled a Railway-linked key after unauthorized use; Railway never notified them.

Reddit · r/devops · 22 days ago

Outages are common on Railway and the breach handling gave no proper notifications or dashboard warning.

Reddit · r/devops · 22 days ago

Spent hours rotating keys after the Railway breach only to find the new ones leaked again; fixes would not deploy.

Reddit · r/devops · 22 days ago

Liked Railway but the env-var breach spooked them into moving small projects to EC2.

Reddit · r/devops · 22 days ago

Production database down for hours with no way to restore or redeploy on a Hobby plan.

Reddit · r/webdev · 22 days ago

Third time burned by Railway; migrated their business to DigitalOcean.

Reddit · r/webdev · 22 days ago

Many issues lately; says Railway is not worth the $200/month they pay and is moving.

Reddit · r/devops · 22 days ago

After the Railway incident, migrating to Fly.io was far easier than expected, about 30 minutes.

Reddit · r/webdev · 22 days ago

OpenAI key leaked through the Railway incident and was burned; a spend cap limited the loss.

Reddit · r/devops · 22 days ago

OpenRouter disabled leaked keys; Railway never said which projects or keys were affected.

Reddit · r/devops · 22 days ago

Their Anthropic key was used by an unknown party after the Railway breach and deployments stayed down for 10-14 hours.

Reddit · r/devops · 22 days ago

A 7k increase in OpenAI costs from a key leaked via Railway.

Reddit · r/webdev · 23 days ago

They say Railway has had major issues for over a year and two incidents in two days left them unable to update projects. Even support was down, and they are asking for an alternative.

Reddit · r/webdev · 23 days ago

They needed to ship an important product and Railway had been unable to deploy for 12 hours.

Reddit · r/webdev · 23 days ago

They could not deploy a critical update to their PHP services during the Railway outage and had to take the services down.

Reddit · r/webdev · 23 days ago

As a paying customer running client applications, they could not access projects or deploy during the outage. They give Railway 24 hours before cancelling their subscription.

Reddit · r/webdev · 23 days ago

They moved projects off Railway after the underlying GCP provider cut it off for about a day. They also saw services locking up and needed repeated restarts.

Reddit · r/webdev · 23 days ago

Railway deployments began failing just before they pushed their new Android app announcement to production, and had been down since.

Reddit · r/webdev · 23 days ago

They have thousands of users and could not deploy during the Railway outage, so they are asking for alternatives.

Reddit · r/webdev · 23 days ago

They have the opposite experience of the complaints: they are amazed by Railway's performance and by the features they get for the cost.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 24 days ago

They deliberately run on Google-operated regions in Belgium and the Netherlands rather than the London colo region. They were unaffected by the europe-west2 outage and hope it leads to improvements.

Reddit · r/AZURE · 27 days ago

They have used Azure since 2010 but are migrating to AWS after a year in which they say support went from present to non-existent.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 27 days ago

Free-tier Flask apps deployed on Render were suspended, forcing a search for alternatives.

Reddit · r/AZURE · 28 days ago

They once had a support ticket open for a year; the issue was known but support said they lacked access to fix it.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 28 days ago

They see capacity shortages across many GCP machine families and regions, even on the alternative GCP suggested, which threatens production scaling.

Reddit · r/AZURE · 29 days ago

Despite paying for a support subscription, their Azure ticket was answered by an AI that kept asking and suggesting.

Reddit · r/AZURE · 29 days ago

After 4 years on Azure, an unannounced host migration took their MySQL master offline for 45 seconds, causing a week of recovery, and support did not meaningfully respond for almost 2 months. They are migrating to AWS from around $70K a month of spend.

Reddit · r/aws · 33 days ago

They call Lightsail an insecure dev machine on the internet but useful for spinning up different OSs, and they use it to test arm64.

Reddit · r/aws · 33 days ago

They call Lightsail Containers a hidden gem and the cheapest managed container host, used for web and internal apps for over 4 years with zero maintenance.

Reddit · r/nextjs · 33 days ago

Hosts a site on Fly.io with no problems and perfect 100 scores across the board on page insights.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 34 days ago

They run a Python app with a 2.2 GB SQLite database on a 2 GB, 2 vCPU Lightsail instance at 12 dollars a month, and its CPU burst capacity is exhausted, slowing migration and workers.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 35 days ago

They report almost all GCP machine types (C3, C4, C4A, N4A, N2, N4) currently unavailable and call it a disaster.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 35 days ago

Paid account suddenly said the trial ended, nothing worked, and support was useless.

Reddit · r/hetzner · 38 days ago

Clusters on DO, Linode, AWS and Hetzner over a decade: DigitalOcean never had an incident in years.

Reddit · r/aws · 38 days ago

Tried AWS Lightsail once and never liked it because of poor performance.

Reddit · r/aws · 44 days ago

Found AWS-native snapshot consistency tricky for SQL Server on EC2 if not set up right, and had a restore fail once.

Reddit · r/VPS · 47 days ago

Left DigitalOcean because the control panel interface lags terribly.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 50 days ago

They tried for five days to migrate to Cloud SQL Enterprise Plus, which worked in every region except us-central1.

Reddit · r/webdev · 51 days ago

They run their C# app as a docker image with docker-compose on a DigitalOcean droplet, fronted by nginx and letsencrypt.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 51 days ago

They spent a month failing to get a Kubernetes networking setup working on AWS EKS, then had it working the same day on GKE, which uses eBPF.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 51 days ago

Their new GCP free-tier project was suspended within seconds of enabling Gmail APIs. The appeal got a nonsense reply and no further answer, so they filed to delete the whole org.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 53 days ago

Their startup project on Google Cloud was hit by an exploited old service account that spammed Model Garden APIs for 20+ hours, producing a charge of about 600k they cannot pay.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 53 days ago

At their company, moving terabytes of Cloud Storage data from Standard to Archive tier triggered Class A operation charges of about $170k. They say Google would hold the customer responsible, so no refund was possible.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 55 days ago

They run many training workloads on GKE with H100 GPUs and say it has been great so far, and they like the project structure. They found Azure VMSS painful and slow when scaling about 1000 L4 GPUs.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 55 days ago

They have been on GCP for 7 years and criticise Google for not implementing network ACLs and for pushing everything into Private Service Connect. They say VPC Service Controls only covers googleapis.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 55 days ago

They call Google Cloud enterprise support a joke and add from their own experience that most of their issues are known bugs with no ETA for a fix.

Reddit · r/digital_ocean · 56 days ago

Runs production apps with around 500 users each on shared CPU droplets and recommends premium AMD.

Reddit · r/digital_ocean · 56 days ago

Not a single five-minute downtime in over four years.

Reddit · r/digital_ocean · 57 days ago

Shared CPU droplets for internal apps and testing without problems for years.

Reddit · r/digital_ocean · 57 days ago

Shared droplets caused occasional Minecraft lag spikes, but work fine for production cron scripts and they are very happy overall.

Reddit · r/digital_ocean · 57 days ago

Tested shared premium AMD droplets and is moving all servers since no performance impact is noticeable.

Reddit · r/AZURE · 58 days ago

They would trust Azure with production only if UI, support and reliability matched AWS, and their one Azure use case has constant issues.

Reddit · r/digital_ocean · 58 days ago

Moved to DigitalOcean because droplets are cheap and the support is still really good.

Reddit · r/digital_ocean · 58 days ago

After 10 years DigitalOcean capped domains at 20 per account and only raised their 132 to 50, so they are leaving.

Reddit · r/aws · 59 days ago

Runs self-managed database nodes on EC2 for network control and NVMe drives, plus a fleet for ECS task placement.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 59 days ago

Free Oracle VPS works for IPv4 termination with WireGuard behind CGNAT.

Reddit · r/digital_ocean · 59 days ago

Moved from AWS and GCP to DigitalOcean for the simple UI, but a redesign has cluttered the dashboard.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 60 days ago

They moved an internal Docker tool to DigitalOcean App Platform and found it pretty seamless. They chose it to avoid hardening and maintaining a VPS themselves.

Reddit · r/AZURE · 60 days ago

They report about 2600 dollars in unexpected Azure charges and cannot find how to open a billing or support ticket, only seeing a refund option that loops back.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 60 days ago

They stopped using Google Cloud because usage billing controls are obscure and only notifications can be set, with no hard limit.

Reddit · r/AZURE · 62 days ago

Their Azure account was hacked and used to create unnecessary virtual machines and storage accounts. After Azure investigated, the invoice was reverted.

Reddit · r/AZURE · 62 days ago

They had a billing case in which the Azure billing team forgave a 15 dollar debt.

Reddit · r/AZURE · 63 days ago

Their Azure startup account with about 10k in credits was apparently compromised, leaving roughly 550k in unauthorized Marketplace charges over 9-13 days. Azure support initially said no fraud was detected, and they had no MFA set up.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 64 days ago

An old public API key was abused for Gemini usage and ran up about $87K in 5 hours before the budget alert arrived. Google offered a $55K credit, leaving them about $32K to pay, and they plan to look for other providers.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 64 days ago

A billing account and project they never created were generated in Google Cloud and they were charged $70. Support could only give a simple refund and could not fix the root cause.

Reddit · r/webdev · 67 days ago

Railway's only downside for them is occasional downtime and outages.

Reddit · r/webdev · 69 days ago

Railway has had flaky uptime in recent months though the developer experience is nice.

Reddit · r/webdev · 70 days ago

Runs a Node and Postgres production setup on Railway that has been solid for background jobs and cron.

Reddit · r/webdev · 70 days ago

Railway handles Node and Postgres with zero configuration headache and its built-in cron jobs work flawlessly.

Reddit · r/webdev · 70 days ago

Left Render for Cloudflare Workers because of cold starts.

Reddit · r/webdev · 71 days ago

Using Railway on a project for a while with no complaints; simple setup and pay for what you use.

Reddit · r/webdev · 71 days ago

Runs a Node and Postgres stack with about a hundred users on Railway; it has been solid for months.

Reddit · r/webdev · 71 days ago

Railway is cheap and easy but a couple of major outages took hours to resolve; moving off to AWS.

Reddit · r/webdev · 71 days ago

Render is super easy but webhooks only come with the $20/mo plan, so they moved to a cheaper Hetzner VPS.

Reddit · r/AZURE · 72 days ago

They find unoptimized Azure cost slightly higher than AWS but for them it ends up cheaper thanks to lower transaction and bandwidth costs.

Reddit · r/AZURE · 73 days ago

They are moving a legacy single-subscription environment to landing zones and support only raised their subscription limit from 5 to 10 while repeatedly demanding business justification. They remained blocked for weeks.

Reddit · r/devops · 74 days ago

A min-instances=1 setting sat unnoticed in their Cloud Run config for months and quietly cost $206 in idle warm containers. They only caught it because config changes now land in a reviewed diff.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 76 days ago

They have used Google for 8+ years but hit capacity problems, including an 8 hour period without one instance, and are now talking to AWS and OCI.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 76 days ago

They are struggling to provision AlloyDB and Valkey clusters on GCP because of capacity limits.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 76 days ago

They keep hitting stock out errors on regular CPU instances across node sizes and regions, and must search all regions for on-demand compute.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 76 days ago

They have C4 capacity problems on GCP and may have to move production GKE workloads to another region.

Reddit · r/AZURE · 79 days ago

They found suspicious sign-ins and a very large Azure bill, stopped all components and contacted Microsoft.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 91 days ago

On a non-PAYG free account gets only about 50Mbps each way, the standard cap for free accounts.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 95 days ago

Their service account keys lived only in GitHub Actions secrets, yet the same compromise happened to them, and they could not reach support.

Reddit · r/devops · 95 days ago

Added free Oracle nodes to a home Nomad cluster over WireGuard for extra compute at no cost.

Reddit · r/devops · 98 days ago

In France, repeatedly gets out-of-capacity errors trying to create the free 24GB A1 server.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 98 days ago

On a PAYG A1 instance in Stockholm measured about 1.9 Gbps down and 2 Gbps up, so no 50 Mbps cap.

Reddit · r/digital_ocean · 99 days ago

DigitalOcean permanently deleted their infrastructure after a billing issue and refused any refund or explanation after escalation.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 101 days ago

A commitment applied on a FinOps recommendation led to a roughly $12,100 charge, and support first promised a full refund in writing then reversed to 50 percent after repeated agent handoffs.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 101 days ago

They pay for the most expensive enterprise support and say it is still hit or miss, with calls declined or rerouted for months, worse than basic AWS support.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 101 days ago

Took about two months of scripted attempts to get an Ampere A1 without a PAYG account.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 103 days ago

They ship faster on Cloud Run and avoid the works-in-dev-not-in-prod issues they had with Lambdas.

Reddit · r/webdev · 103 days ago

Forgot an experimental EC2 instance for two weeks and was billed about $1,700.

Reddit · r/VPS · 107 days ago

DigitalOcean has worked great for over a month with no issues or ID verification.

Reddit · r/AZURE · 112 days ago

Their multi-region setup (SQL primary/secondary, app services with Traffic Manager, Kubernetes in both regions) failed over automatically during the West US outage with little impact.

Reddit · r/AZURE · 113 days ago

During the West US outage their App Services and even the scm portals were unreachable for at least 30 minutes before the portal showed an alert.

Reddit · r/AZURE · 113 days ago

During the West US outage their traffic was not reaching the Application Gateway and VPN gateway failed; they say moving to another region would take days to weeks and cost thousands.

Reddit · r/AZURE · 113 days ago

During the West US outage they lost connectivity to several Windows VMs while Ubuntu VMs were unaffected, a redeploy did not help, and they could not open Cloud Shell.

Reddit · r/AZURE · 113 days ago

Their AKS clusters in US West were not working for several hours during the outage.

Reddit · r/digital_ocean · 113 days ago

Using DigitalOcean since 2012 but, having seen abysmal support even before the layoffs, would never recommend it for an important workload.

Reddit · r/digital_ocean · 113 days ago

Has used DigitalOcean for more than twelve years, likes the fixed payments and always-available resources, and recalls only one unrecoverable droplet crash; support is just OK.

Reddit · r/digital_ocean · 113 days ago

Years on DigitalOcean, dislikes that everything has a public IP and that the managed databases have few tuning options, and has an unresolved network issue with dropped connections and DNS failures; support has been useless.

Reddit · r/digital_ocean · 113 days ago

Ran sites and a SaaS on DigitalOcean Kubernetes and droplets but moved to AWS because all outgoing SMTP is blocked and support said it cannot be unblocked.

Reddit · r/AZURE · 115 days ago

They report about 16,000 dollars in unauthorized Azure AI Foundry charges after an apparent account compromise and have a billing support case open.

Reddit · r/webdev · 116 days ago

Has used DigitalOcean since 2017, almost ten years, with no complaints.

Reddit · r/webdev · 117 days ago

Runs all web infrastructure on DigitalOcean droplets; monthly bill varies by only about $50 in the worst cases.

Reddit · r/webdev · 117 days ago

Uses Lightsail for unified communications: fixed and heavily subsidized cost, but not business-ready and needs separate infrastructure to manage.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 118 days ago

Got a free instance but found it flaky, needing constant reboots because sshd broke.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 120 days ago

A compromised service account was used to spin up VMs, producing an $8.8K bill; billing support denied the waiver and a debt recovery notice followed.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 120 days ago

They lost about 2k through Google API keys with no limits, but after a month Google made them whole again.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 121 days ago

They got a 47k dollar bill over two days and three months later have no resolution, so they have moved off Google where they can.

Reddit · r/digital_ocean · 121 days ago

Their DigitalOcean startup program application got no answer for weeks, so they switched to Google Cloud and Dokploy.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 122 days ago

They had a 5K spike within a few hours and billing support, after bot chat and escalation to a human agent, waived it.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 122 days ago

Upgraded to PAYG but still could not create an instance in any of the three availability domains in their region.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 122 days ago

Tried to register for Oracle Cloud twice and each time was rejected at the final stage for an unclear reason.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 123 days ago

They say Google Cloud is bad after a similar billing incident and are moving everything off GCP.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 123 days ago

Got a free Ampere instance last week in the Sydney data center.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 126 days ago

They were banned from GCP in 2023 during a college hackathon and had their Shell access blocked, apparently over policy violations they did not know about.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 126 days ago

They had a service account with only a logging role exploited and an attacker still managed to use the Gemini API on it.

Reddit · r/digital_ocean · 126 days ago

A four-year droplet was trouble-free, but changing account access took two weeks of back and forth and apparently wiped their SSH keys.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 127 days ago

They use the Maps API on a personal account without a payment method and say it simply disables itself when the monthly limit is reached.

Reddit · r/digital_ocean · 127 days ago

After an expired card renewal failure, DigitalOcean deleted the droplet and all associated backups.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 128 days ago

They used startup program credits and then got a 200 dollar overage bill while Vertex AI drained the rest of the credits after a tool used their Cloud account.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 129 days ago

They switched to Azure as their main cloud because they think GCP is not mature enough, and say Google support was helpless on a spend issue.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 129 days ago

They accidentally paid for usage meant to be covered by student credits, and customer support helped them recover all of the money.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 129 days ago

They saw billing jump from about 50 dollars monthly to almost 20K in a day after enabling Gemini on an old project, and the billing cap did not stop it.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 129 days ago

They had an AI agent loop and spend nearly 400 dollars overnight and find Google's monitoring and limit tools confusing.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 130 days ago

They report owing Google Cloud about 36K dollars after hackers abused their Maps API access to run up Gemini usage, and are seeking a Google contact.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 130 days ago

They got hit with a huge Maps API bill, and after about a month of polite escalation requests got 90% credited back.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 130 days ago

They were charged 400 dollars in one hour from a Google Maps API on their website and say they have had no message from support.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 130 days ago

They ran a test data population for a local app and suddenly had a 400 dollar bill, having not realised how expensive the requests were.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 130 days ago

They have an ongoing 55k dollar bill dispute and managed to get an escalation manager looking into their case.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 134 days ago

They incurred the same kind of runaway charges in May and a Google support specialist declined their case without giving a reason.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 141 days ago

They were banned in May 2025, and three appeals since have stayed in processing with no response from Google.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 145 days ago

They self-host mail with mailcow on an 8GB DigitalOcean instance and it has worked fine for family, friends and small orgs, roughly 80-100 mailboxes.

Reddit · r/digital_ocean · 148 days ago

After a failed $25 payment their client's DigitalOcean account was terminated and resources permanently deleted about 48 hours after the first warning.

Reddit · r/hetzner · 148 days ago

Calls DigitalOcean dogshit compared with Hetzner when comparing CPU benchmarks.

Reddit · r/digital_ocean · 151 days ago

Their first droplet is still around nine years later and DigitalOcean was always reliable.

Reddit · r/digital_ocean · 152 days ago

Satisfied with a $6 droplet and good pricing and UX, but contradictory credit-program communications make them leave.

Reddit · r/nextjs · 154 days ago

Their firm is all-in on Railway.

Reddit · r/webdev · 156 days ago

They used DigitalOcean as their go-to server provider for many years (not recently) and found its tutorials fantastic.

Reddit · r/webdev · 157 days ago

They host their personal static site on DigitalOcean App Platform free tier and get a $0 invoice each month.

Reddit · r/devops · 158 days ago

They were recently unable to get cores for PostgreSQL and Kubernetes in Azure North and West Europe.

Reddit · r/AZURE · 160 days ago

A longtime AWS user learning Azure for a year, they find deploying resources with Terraform takes twice as long.

Reddit · r/AZURE · 160 days ago

A former data center builder, they have run workloads on Azure for years, would not go back, and judge the bundled services worthwhile compared with colo.

Reddit · r/devops · 161 days ago

They hit a Postgres Flexible issue in East US and were told to move region, then had vCPU quota requests for AKS in East US 2 backlogged for days with no support reply.

Reddit · r/devops · 161 days ago

They could not start even the cheapest VM during the day because of capacity limits, and at a previous company could not power all VMs on at once to patch.

Reddit · r/devops · 161 days ago

They are moving workloads off Azure because of long-running East US capacity constraints, weak networking and poor support.

Reddit · r/devops · 161 days ago

They had to relocate about 10 live applications between regions because of quota availability.

Reddit · r/AZURE · 161 days ago

Having used both clouds for a long time, they find Azure stronger on PaaS, Microsoft integration and security, but fiddly compared with AWS.

Reddit · r/AZURE · 161 days ago

In their experience Azure scales very well with fewer than 50 developers and the portal is practical for enterprise apps, though the CLI feels bulky.

Reddit · r/AZURE · 161 days ago

They find Azure's scaling and pricing model and security model horrible and confusing, with tier gating that forces costly SKU upgrades.

Reddit · r/AZURE · 161 days ago

They like Azure's searchable portal and say Entra integration, such as managed identity auth to Postgres, is amazing.

Reddit · r/AZURE · 161 days ago

After using both clouds for a long time, they say Azure gives them headaches with unfinished features, and Linux admin is clunky.

Reddit · r/webdev · 163 days ago

They have run a $4 DigitalOcean VPS with SQLite and Cloudflare R2 as their favorite setup for a while, able to run practically any server.

Reddit · r/devops · 166 days ago

Over 5 years across two companies they have had good experiences with Azure frontline support, which escalates to the product team and gets issues resolved in a timely manner.

Reddit · r/devops · 167 days ago

They have run AKS with a load balancer and app gateway on Azure for 5+ years at under 10k a month without anyone pressuring them to use managed services.

Reddit · r/devops · 167 days ago

They run large GKE Autopilot clusters that handle updates, scaling and a service mesh by themselves after setup, so no dedicated platform team is needed. They note it is expensive.

Reddit · r/devops · 167 days ago

Their team took Azure startup credits, then ended up on a $7900 monthly bill for Kubernetes nodes, CDN, load balancers, functions and databases. They say Azure pushed managed services and nearly closed their account, so they moved off.

Reddit · r/devops · 167 days ago

Their Azure RDS-to-Flexible Server migration tool never worked, and support took 4 days to say so. They also hit capacity shortages and were told to try again at night.

Reddit · r/devops · 167 days ago

They say Azure Professional Direct support has never fixed a problem for them, spending months asking for debug data before saying nothing can be done. AWS Enterprise support has helped them far more.

Reddit · r/devops · 167 days ago

Their startup ran managed Docker services and VMs on Azure credits. They were denied higher credit tiers, which they link to being easy to migrate away, though they call the program amazing with helpful resources.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 168 days ago

A compromised Gemini API key ran up about $19,000 on their nearly idle account, charges kept growing after deleting everything, and billing support gave only generic replies.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 168 days ago

They had a similar runaway bill over a year ago, negotiated it down to about 2k, and are still arguing with Google to reduce it.

Reddit · r/digital_ocean · 168 days ago

After an early $25 usage-threshold billing hold, DigitalOcean suspended the account with a same-day deadline and deleted four years of data.

Reddit · r/VPS · 169 days ago

They say DigitalOcean support does not read what is sent and just auto replies.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 169 days ago

Uptime has been really bad lately with no error logs; migrating to another host.

Reddit · r/AZURE · 171 days ago

They built an MCP agent on Container Apps and Azure AI Foundry with scale to zero, spent under NZ$10 so far, saw 10 to 30 second cold starts, and liked the built-in observability.

Reddit · r/webdev · 176 days ago

They call GCP the most user hostile cloud and say its support experts do not know the product, so customers must re-educate them.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 177 days ago

They woke up to a bill of around 75 lakh INR from generative API calls on their project.

Reddit · r/webdev · 177 days ago

They switched to Azure app containers after the Railway outage and found it surprisingly easy using the Azure CLI.

Reddit · r/webdev · 177 days ago

Their production sites went down in a Railway outage and they could not reach the .env keys stored there, so they plan to switch.

Reddit · r/webdev · 177 days ago

They say Railway has gone down repeatedly because of Google, and they left after the first incident.

Reddit · r/webdev · 177 days ago

Their CRM with 30+ clients was inaccessible during the Railway outage and they plan to move to DigitalOcean and keep daily database backups.

Reddit · r/webdev · 177 days ago

As a solo dev they find Railway makes deployment and backend previews easy with little setup, and call it a good experience so far despite the outage.

Reddit · r/webdev · 177 days ago

They like Railway's development tooling and use its CLI a lot to trigger deployments on their staging environment.

Reddit · r/webdev · 177 days ago

This is their second Railway outage in four months and they are now planning to move to AWS.

Reddit · r/webdev · 177 days ago

They just started with Railway and enjoy the developer experience, performance and pricing, but their traffic dropped to zero in the outage and they call it a warning shot.

Reddit · r/webdev · 177 days ago

They chose Railway Metal for their deployments but found the dashboard had been flipped to public cloud without their knowledge.

Reddit · r/webdev · 177 days ago

They report frequent service issues on Railway lately and are in the middle of migrating to Koyeb.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 178 days ago

Using Railway and likes it, but the free hobby tier is gone and $5/month is steep for early stages.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 180 days ago

Free VMs are usually unavailable and, when granted, are randomly removed without clear reasons.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 181 days ago

A Cloud Run app behind IAP and GCIP suddenly lost sign-in across 14 deployments, and despite paying thousands monthly for enhanced support it took days with no replication.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 183 days ago

Their account was suspended for alleged abuse after a hackathon, locking them out of billing and projects while a charge still hit their card. Appeals went unanswered until a support ticket eventually fixed it.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 183 days ago

Has used Oracle's free ARM VM for a couple of years and finds it very stable.

Reddit · r/devops · 184 days ago

Four weeks on Railway Pro for database and software: no complete outages, but timeouts on heavy calculations and deploy problems.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 187 days ago

They love the platform but say first-line support cannot interpret bug evidence, so you need an account rep to escalate.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 187 days ago

They found Google Cloud a mess to navigate as a new user, with help pages pointing to deprecated information.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 187 days ago

They like GCP design but call its support the worst they have seen and report finding dozens of bugs in its services.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 187 days ago

They had a gcloud and Workspace issue open for over a month while support bounced them between teams without a fix.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 187 days ago

Their team uses GCP and finds it a colossal pain to use and ungodly expensive.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 187 days ago

They tried moving Cloud Run workloads to Azure for a client and had real problems with the docs and with building from a plain Dockerfile.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 188 days ago

Having worked with both AWS and GCP in enterprises, they prefer GCP for org hierarchy, console UI, VPC setup, Kubernetes and data products, though internal navigation and escalations are harder.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 188 days ago

They have had a P1 case open for almost a month and support gave them hallucinated gcloud commands, then ended the call when challenged.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 188 days ago

They say GCP support is poor even at enterprise level, with cases taking months and half-baked features, but its ML services are second to none.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 188 days ago

They use both clouds and like GCP Kubernetes and global VPCs, but found GCP account reps churned and less supportive than AWS teams.

Reddit · r/aws · 188 days ago

Main DB writer sat in the affected us-east-1 AZ during the May 2026 thermal event and was badly hit.

Reddit · r/aws · 189 days ago

During a us-east-1 power event had a degraded EBS volume and a t2 instance in bad shape; a stop/start fixed it.

Reddit · r/sveltejs · 189 days ago

Has run a SvelteKit app on Railway with Drizzle and hosted Supabase for nearly two years without seeing the error others hit.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 192 days ago

Hosts a WordPress site on Oracle PAYG using only free-tier resources, with weekly boot volume backups.

Reddit · r/webdev · 192 days ago

Runs half a dozen sites and many subdomains on a single DigitalOcean Ubuntu droplet.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 194 days ago

They ran VMs and a fastapi endpoint on GCP and had the project suspended without notice for vague TOS violations, losing access to billing and logs.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 196 days ago

A solo developer whose Gemini spend cap did not stop a charge of about 5x the limit after a stolen key, then saw six support agents over five weeks and only a partial courtesy refund.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 196 days ago

They hit the same delayed-billing problem on GCP, where damage was done before charges showed up, and say their team is moving off GCP because of how Google handles it.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 197 days ago

They set a usage cap on Google Cloud and never received an alert when it was exceeded, which they call predatory.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 197 days ago

They find it hard to reach a human at Google Cloud support and only get an AI operator that hangs up on them.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 197 days ago

Their Gemini API project had a $120 monthly spend cap but the system failed to throttle, producing over $1,800 in charges in one day.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 199 days ago

Google support closed their case refusing any credit for charges from leaked API keys, saying the decision was final, and they consider legal action.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 199 days ago

Their team faced $32,000 in charges within 24 hours, and their support case has been pending ten days with poor support.

Reddit · r/aws · 199 days ago

Bakes an AMI with Packer and updates containers on EC2 through GitHub Actions and SSM; works fine, used because they need a static IP.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 200 days ago

Cannot migrate VMs flagged for firmware maintenance on OCI; the only option is to wait for forced shutdown.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 202 days ago

They woke up to about $4000 in charges from unauthorized Places API usage after a budget alert fired overnight.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 202 days ago

They were hit with an unexpected $369 charge and Google offered to refund only $18.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 203 days ago

They report the same runaway-charge incident hitting them on March 12, with about $200k USD per day, and are still struggling with a support case.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 203 days ago

They saw a huge Gemini API cost spike and charges continued after support said they would stop. Two weeks later their projects are still down and support was bounced around and useless.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 204 days ago

They had a spend cap of 1500 INR but woke up to a 4000 INR bill and a suspended project, with no way to reach billing support.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 204 days ago

They were charged about $5 a day for ten days, ignoring their $10 budget. Support eventually refunded around 90 percent.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 205 days ago

They were charged about 500 pounds on a dead, unused project in a few minutes. Their account was restricted and the appeal has gone unanswered for four weeks.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 205 days ago

They noticed a 160 euro Gemini API spike, and while talking to support 12k euro more accrued. Support has no authority and they have waited three weeks for a refund.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 205 days ago

They had about 60000 euro of Gemini API calls exploited overnight against a 100 euro budget limit, and Google raised their tier automatically. Support only says to wait.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 205 days ago

Their team received a $12,000 bill on a Gemini API key they doubt was leaked and they are trying to reach a real support agent.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 205 days ago

Their company was caught by about 4k of unauthorized charges, blaming laggy billing and key design where Gemini was enabled on an unrestricted Firebase key.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 205 days ago

They were charged 100 dollars in one day from an unused random key and Google left the bill in place when they appealed.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 205 days ago

Their low-traffic e-learning site ran up about 3,000 rupees in one night against a 100 rupee budget, so they shut it down and moved to Vercel.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 205 days ago

They describe GCP as buggy and hard to set up, with billing arriving a day later so overspend goes unnoticed.

Reddit · r/aws · 209 days ago

Runs WireGuard on a Lightsail instance and says it works nicely.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 214 days ago

Calls Railway's RBAC broken and support non-existent; cannot even file a ticket because project selection is broken.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 216 days ago

Their monthly usage of about 200 USD jumped to 10000 USD in 2 hours; billing took 24 hours to reflect and Google only cut the invoice to 2800 USD as goodwill.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 216 days ago

They suffered 220k of spending in 3 days and are still waiting on a support case while pushing back with their reseller.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 216 days ago

They received a huge bill while using only the free tier after an API leak, and after long back and forth Google still wanted them to pay.

Reddit · r/webdev · 217 days ago

They run 11 internal sites and APIs on Azure shared compute for about 65 dollars a year and like the easy integration and telemetry. They add it would need optimization and would not suit prod.

Reddit · r/webdev · 217 days ago

After 10+ years on AWS they have used Google Cloud for 2 years and are impressed by its comparative stability and cohesive APIs.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 217 days ago

After enabling Gemini API in a test project, an old unrestricted Maps key was abused and the billing report showed about 36,824 euros in a week.

Reddit · r/webdev · 218 days ago

They have spent 3 years at an Azure-only company building small to medium solutions on PaaS. They say it is not bad to work with once RBAC, managed identities and SKUs are understood.

Reddit · r/webdev · 218 days ago

After a couple of years of professional use, they saw things that worked yesterday stop working with no changelog, and docs trailed actual API behavior by months.

Reddit · r/webdev · 218 days ago

They consider Azure the best of the big three, like its UI and report no downtime on any of their products.

Reddit · r/webdev · 218 days ago

They have used Azure for pretty big projects and never had the slightest problem.

Reddit · r/webdev · 218 days ago

They find Fly.io the closest thing to it just works for deploying Node apps, with a small team and simple product and no heavy IAM setup.

Reddit · r/aws · 218 days ago

Ran a single EC2 Spot instance for 14 months without an interruption, while cautioning to plan for the two-minute reclaim warning.

Reddit · r/aws · 218 days ago

Uses EC2 Spot instances as GitHub Actions runners, about 90% cheaper than GitHub-managed ones, and they work flawlessly.

Reddit · r/aws · 218 days ago

Runs entire production EKS clusters with dozens of nodes on EC2 Spot, picking less common instance types to cut terminations.

Reddit · r/aws · 218 days ago

Ran EC2 Spot nodes in production EKS clusters for years; volatile but less so than the documentation suggests.

Reddit · r/aws · 218 days ago

Runs a gaming server on EC2 Spot: gets a two-minute warning to back up and restore on a new instance, paying less with no noticeable difference in the best case.

Reddit · r/webdev · 218 days ago

Uses Cloudflare Workers plus a DigitalOcean droplet for anything needing a real server; about $12 a month in total.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 219 days ago

Used a $6 DigitalOcean droplet for load tests because it spins up quickly; it handled about 1,700 req/s before tuning.

Reddit · r/VPS · 220 days ago

DigitalOcean blocks mail ports and their IPs were listed as bad spam sources, unlike a clean OVH IP.

Reddit · r/webdev · 221 days ago

Used Heroku for two years at work; it made spinning up test environments super easy.

Reddit · r/webdev · 221 days ago

Moving clients off Heroku but misses its maturity; once you knew how it worked it was pretty reliable.

Reddit · r/webdev · 221 days ago

Found DigitalOcean the best price, performance, uptime and feature set in testing and it keeps working.

Reddit · r/aws · 225 days ago

Their only-region EC2 server went down when me-south-1 was hit and the app has been unreachable for days with no migration path.

Reddit · r/webdev · 226 days ago

They have deployed many Docker containers and call Fly.io the best for personal projects and MVPs. They found it easy to start and cheap to scale, with database setup being the hardest part.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 226 days ago

Dev time on support and maintenance for Railway was not worth it and client reputation suffered, so they moved.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 230 days ago

Their free instance stopped working after the trial period, could not be rebooted, and a new one could not be created in London because of capacity; no live chat support.

Reddit · r/nextjs · 230 days ago

Runs standalone Next.js builds on Fly.io and is super happy with it.

Reddit · r/VPS · 234 days ago

Five years on Oracle free tier with no issues or downtime.

Reddit · r/laravel · 239 days ago

They run a nearly free server on Google Cloud, paying only cents because most of the cost falls under the free tier.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 240 days ago

They run a Node.js app on Fly.io and see real downtime they trace to the provider's servers. Their own monitoring does not match Fly's status reports.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 240 days ago

Used DigitalOcean with no issues ever; the only reason to leave is the price.

Reddit · r/webdev · 241 days ago

Frustrated by Fly.io outages and no longer advises it.

Reddit · r/webdev · 241 days ago

Company has used Heroku for over a decade and its cost is negligible, so they will just move to another PaaS.

Reddit · r/nextjs · 246 days ago

After a few months on Railway calls it a solid choice with much more predictable pricing than Vercel, feeling more like owning the infrastructure.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 247 days ago

Runs services with 100+ users on Railway; outages are mostly builder-related and have not hit running workloads, but only non-critical services stay.

Reddit · r/nextjs · 247 days ago

Loved the Railway developer experience over two years but left for a self-hosted VPS because of major outages every two to three months, sometimes six hours or more.

Reddit · r/nextjs · 247 days ago

Says DigitalOcean App Platform costs 5 dollars a month, only needs a GitHub repo, and can auto-scale if needed.

Reddit · r/laravel · 248 days ago

They stay on a DigitalOcean droplet without Forge and call it the cheapest option that is just as robust.

Reddit · r/devops · 248 days ago

Moved two SaaS products from Railway to DigitalOcean App Platform: less user friendly, more flexible for scaling.

Reddit · r/nextjs · 248 days ago

Has loved Render so far because they always know what they will spend every month.

Reddit · r/nextjs · 248 days ago

Says Railway at 5 dollars a month handles most cases for an organically growing app and runs smoothly with light caching.

Reddit · r/nextjs · 248 days ago

Hosts a few Next.js and Vite apps on Railway for less than 10 dollars a month and likes its pricing model.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 254 days ago

Has run postfix mail servers on DigitalOcean droplets for about 10 years.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 254 days ago

Only ever had mail deliverability problems when running on a DigitalOcean droplet.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 256 days ago

They ran up about 3k dollars of Maps API usage on a free GCP account; Google voided the charge after they cited a school project but shadow banned the account.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 257 days ago

As a student founder with startup credits they were billed about 4000 GBP in 3 days for Claude models via Marketplace that credits did not cover, and support said it could not adjust the charge.

Reddit · r/aws · 263 days ago

Calls Oracle's always-free tier absurdly generous (200GB storage, up to 2 VMs) but notes idle instances can be reclaimed and Ampere ARM capacity is hard to get.

Reddit · r/digital_ocean · 263 days ago

Has used DigitalOcean for many years without issue.

Reddit · r/digital_ocean · 264 days ago

Account suspended after an abuse notice with no detail; lost access to droplets and database backups for almost 48 hours.

Reddit · r/digital_ocean · 265 days ago

Account was suspended with nothing running, then reinstated a day later with no wrongdoing found.

Reddit · r/digital_ocean · 266 days ago

DigitalOcean suspended their account for unspecified platform abuse; it was unlocked after 24 hours with a generic false-flag reply.

Reddit · r/digital_ocean · 266 days ago

A DigitalOcean account for over 10 years; occasional abuse reports always resolved without issue.

Reddit · r/digital_ocean · 266 days ago

Several years on DigitalOcean; abuse cases always came with a chance to fix them and never a lockout.

Reddit · r/digital_ocean · 266 days ago

DigitalOcean shut them down twice with no way to reach anyone or learn why, so they moved the backend to Linode.

Reddit · r/AZURE · 267 days ago

They are doing a cost-saving analysis at work and find duplicated logging and workspaces plus insane Log Analytics pricing for little use.

Reddit · r/AZURE · 267 days ago

They raised Cosmos RU throughput to speed a data transfer and were hit with a $550 monthly bill.

Reddit · r/AZURE · 267 days ago

Their current Log Analytics spend is about 300k a year, so they are moving to self-hosted Grafana LGTM with OTEL.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 267 days ago

Creating a free VM failed with no free-tier capacity in their Milan region, which cannot be changed after signup.

Reddit · r/devops · 267 days ago

Lost database connections on 3 projects during an outage with no support contact; moved to Render, which is slower but more reliable.

Reddit · r/AZURE · 268 days ago

They find Log Analytics very expensive, with bills exploding if a service like APIM or Firewall is misconfigured. Hard limits are awkward because they stop logs being written.

Reddit · r/AZURE · 268 days ago

Their team had high Log Analytics bills and moved some logs to Azure Data Explorer to cut cost.

Reddit · r/AZURE · 268 days ago

A Logic App polling every couple of minutes with the 90 day default run history stored about 5TB of hidden data, costing them a couple of thousand euros before they cut history to 7 days.

Reddit · r/AZURE · 268 days ago

They say VNet integration forces them onto Premium Service Bus even for low message volume, which makes prices jump significantly.

Reddit · r/AZURE · 268 days ago

They have spent a lot of time in the Azure portal and find it intuitive and smooth, unlike the AWS console.

Reddit · r/devops · 270 days ago

Server started on Railway but moved to EC2 once usage reached 30k daily users because other platforms charged very high.

Reddit · r/AZURE · 275 days ago

Based on their recent experience they feel Microsoft does not care about the Azure platform, citing unhelpful support, unstable services, VM capacity shortages and risky updates.

Reddit · r/AZURE · 275 days ago

They see four or even five different CPU/system types mixed into older Azure VMs, making it a roulette for what you get when spinning one up.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 275 days ago

Upgraded to PAYG to skip the capacity wait and finds Oracle pricing clearer and cheaper than AWS, though the console is a bit clunky.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 275 days ago

Running Pangolin on OCI, sees up to 90% CPU steal at weekends from noisy neighbors.

Reddit · r/nextjs · 275 days ago

Deploys most of their Next.js apps through Railway, finding it simple and straightforward with auto deploy on git push.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 276 days ago

Left a free ARM instance idle for over a year after a Minecraft server and it was never terminated.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 276 days ago

A free ARM instance has idled for three years, used only for the occasional VPN, without being terminated.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 276 days ago

Uses an OCI instance with Pangolin tunneling to their home network and says it works flawlessly.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 276 days ago

With a couple of free accounts built a distributed K3s cluster over Tailscale with Gluster replication that worked flawlessly.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 276 days ago

Their home region San Jose never has Ampere availability and the region cannot be changed, so they had to open a second account.

Reddit · r/webdev · 276 days ago

DigitalOcean App Platform has been very solid as a Heroku replacement.

Reddit · r/nextjs · 276 days ago

Has found Railway to be very good for deploying apps.

Reddit · r/digital_ocean · 277 days ago

After six years, a 64GB droplet suffered two incidents in a year, the latest 8+ hours, with generic support replies.

Reddit · r/digital_ocean · 277 days ago

A droplet up for about ten years that has never been down.

Reddit · r/digital_ocean · 277 days ago

Customer since the early days and always totally satisfied, though also uses much cheaper OVH.

Reddit · r/digital_ocean · 277 days ago

8-10 years on DigitalOcean with very rare issues; DO contacted them within 5 minutes of a host problem and support replies come within 24 hours.

Reddit · r/digital_ocean · 277 days ago

On DigitalOcean Kubernetes a specific node randomly loses network connectivity, more often than on GKE.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 279 days ago

Runs Gatus on the Oracle free tier, connected to their home network over Tailscale for off-site monitoring.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 279 days ago

Runs home monitoring on always-free cloud tiers and says it removes a lot of stress and uncertainty.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 279 days ago

Hosts a website and a Tailscale exit node on two small free-tier VMs in Germany, running for years.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 279 days ago

Uses the free tier for projects and game servers as a developer, but finds ARM compatibility finicky because many server binaries are not built for aarch64.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 279 days ago

Can only get the small 1 core, 1GB shape, so cannot use the free tier for more than monitoring.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 279 days ago

A week of trying to create an always-free instance, even with a linked card, ended each time in an out-of-capacity error.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 281 days ago

Asked Oracle support about an unexpected daily block-storage charge and the ticket was closed without an answer.

Reddit · r/Hosting · 282 days ago

They moved a site from HostGator to a server they had on Oracle and say it worked better. They also got more control and better backups.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 282 days ago

Was billed $0.39 daily for block storage on a 200GB free-tier VM; thinks a second subscribed region caused it.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 284 days ago

After converting to PAYG, runs a free Ampere instance with 4 vCPU, 24 GB RAM, a 50 GB boot disk and block volume.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 284 days ago

Switched to PAYG and instantly got a free-tier ARM VM after weeks of failed attempts on the plain free signup; has run it ever since, mostly as a RustDesk server.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 284 days ago

Runs a custom Debian Trixie image on the free ARM instance and calls it rock solid on minimal resources.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 284 days ago

Runs storage-node traffic on the free tier; one month a test-data storm pushed bandwidth past 10TB and they were charged.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 284 days ago

Calls the free compute the best offer available, used for over five years and paid exactly $0.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 284 days ago

Two x86 free-tier instances more than five years old run 24/7, plus an Ampere one added about six months ago.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 284 days ago

Same Ubuntu install on the free instance for almost four years, upgraded from 22.04 to 24.04 LTS, pretty solid.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 284 days ago

Has run a 4-core, 20GB RAM, 100GB free instance 24/7 since 2022, first for a modded Minecraft server and now as a fixed-IP reverse proxy.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 284 days ago

Their account, even on PAYG, was closed with no warning and support was too convoluted to recover the servers.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 284 days ago

Rock solid for four years after converting to PAYG, advising picking a home region with Ampere availability.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 284 days ago

Oracle deleted their account for no stated reason.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 284 days ago

Has hosted a Minecraft server on the free tier for about three years without ever being charged.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 284 days ago

Six months on the free tier, works great and never charged; uses it as a WireGuard endpoint behind CGNAT.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 284 days ago

More than a year on the free tier, never charged and rock solid, though they now keep serious off-site backups.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 284 days ago

Runs Pangolin and Netbird on it for a year and a half with no problems.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 284 days ago

Free-tier availability was very low, then the account was closed without explanation and took a week of fighting support to reactivate.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 284 days ago

Two free servers split the resources, no issues for a few years, only about 8 cents a month for S3 overage.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 284 days ago

The free instance works, but it was shut down once for being idle and getting it back took a while.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 284 days ago

Rock solid for a few years, amazing if the workload runs on ARM.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 284 days ago

Ran All The Mods 10 on the free ARM VM: fine with one or two players nearby but TPS dropped regularly.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 284 days ago

The free x86 instance is so slow it can barely run an Uptime Kuma instance.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 284 days ago

More than six months on the free tier and solid.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 284 days ago

Running for years, even after the registration card expired, still not paying.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 284 days ago

Signup was a fight: random errors, a timed-out first attempt, and they seem to have been flagged as fraud; ended up renting elsewhere.

Reddit · r/devops · 284 days ago

Says Oracle compute avoids noisy-neighbor problems thanks to bare metal, but its network uses congested routes with poor performance at night.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 284 days ago

Loves Railway as a backend PaaS: intuitive, low cost, good for North American users.

Reddit · r/aws · 289 days ago

Used EC2 Mac: EBS snapshots randomly failed to restore, capacity was scarce and the price sky high; moving to Xcode Cloud.

Reddit · r/aws · 289 days ago

Rented an EC2 Mac as a remote iOS build agent and it worked like a charm until ad-hoc signing failed; management balked at the first bill.

Reddit · r/aws · 289 days ago

Their iOS builds run on EC2 Mac instances, which takes hours of effort to keep the Jenkins pipeline solid.

Reddit · r/nextjs · 290 days ago

Uses Fly.io and finds it good even when scaling.

Reddit · r/digital_ocean · 292 days ago

Fifteen years with DigitalOcean without issues; late bills brought multiple warnings and time to sort things out.

Reddit · r/digital_ocean · 292 days ago

Hosted multiple sites on DigitalOcean for years with zero shutdowns, lockouts or data loss.

Reddit · r/digital_ocean · 296 days ago

About ten years on DigitalOcean with only once or twice an issue.

Reddit · r/digital_ocean · 296 days ago

DigitalOcean support gives straightforward feedback and tickets have never taken more than 24 hours.

Reddit · r/digital_ocean · 296 days ago

Lost a whole project on DigitalOcean with no recovery and was told tough luck, then left.

Reddit · r/digital_ocean · 296 days ago

Their DigitalOcean server went unreachable and accounts locked out; a later reply says it came from failed payments and a team-email setting.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 297 days ago

They use Cloud Run domain mapping as a free way to connect domains on side projects; for one pet project it avoided a load balancer that would have cost half the project budget.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 297 days ago

Tried for months to get a free Ampere instance, including upgrading to PAYG, but bots grab capacity first.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 298 days ago

Converting to PAYG got them an Ampere instance immediately, free as long as they stay within limits.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 300 days ago

Their company was billed an extra 80k USD after Google forgot to cancel an old Gemini Enterprise auto-renewal. Months later there is still no refund, and they say they would not use GCP again.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 300 days ago

They wasted many hours on the tags versus labels split in GCP and find AWS tags much simpler.

Reddit · r/immich · 302 days ago

Running Prometheus backed by GCP storage buckets suffered from terrible storage performance.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 302 days ago

They generally like GCP better than AWS, but dislike that it ties to Workspace accounts, where Workspace super admins get implied Owner access to the whole GCP org.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 302 days ago

They migrated their product from AWS to GCP (GKE Autopilot, Cloud Run, AlloyDB) and halved costs, with better database performance and pay-for-storage-only pricing.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 303 days ago

They call GCP UX and documentation a nightmare, though once they figure something out it works and Google services are noticeably cheaper. They would still like to move more workloads there.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 303 days ago

They find GCP logging painless with one central place for logs, prefer its folders and projects structure over AWS accounts, and say GKE is far ahead of EKS.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 303 days ago

They love GCP but find it hard to work out which API services and roles must be enabled to provision resources through infrastructure as code.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 303 days ago

They prefer GCP projects over AWS accounts but find GCP awkward and not cheap for hosting a static generated site compared with CloudFront plus S3.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 303 days ago

They struggled to get a resource quota increase on GCP, with multiple calls and emails producing no action.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 303 days ago

With more years on AWS than GCP, they find GCP more developer-friendly with an intuitive org structure, strong BigQuery, a better Gemini, and slightly cheaper pricing.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 303 days ago

They found the GCP UI horrendous, support absent and documentation poor, needing trial and error for basic operations, and were put off by deprecated features like the IoT suite.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 303 days ago

They wanted to go all in on GCP but found connecting a domain to Cloud Run adds a global load balancer with notable base cost for hobby projects, so they now use both GCP and AWS.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 303 days ago

They switched from GCP to Azure and found the documentation much worse.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 305 days ago

They use committed use discounts and say AlloyDB performance and spend has been beyond amazing for them.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 306 days ago

They built a fintech on GCP spending about 30K a month and are struggling now that $100K in startup credits expired before break-even.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 306 days ago

They moved from startup credits to a 20% discount that ends after year 2, and watch costs closely, noting some services spike in price.

Reddit · r/devops · 308 days ago

Runs a SaaS on Railway's $5 plan (nginx, FastAPI, Postgres); shipped in days, though RAM-heavy services raise costs.

Reddit · r/webdev · 311 days ago

Free Render instance suddenly could not connect to Supabase after two months; moved the database to Neon to fix it.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 312 days ago

Runs Pangolin and game servers on it, but a config mistake left an unused storage block costing about $20 a month.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 312 days ago

Eight months on a 100GB, 24GB RAM free instance without ever being asked for a card.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 312 days ago

About five years on the free tier with no issues.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 312 days ago

Over a year using it as a TCP proxy to a home Traefik via Tailscale with few issues; getting an instance is the hard part.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 312 days ago

Their instance was migrated after a rack fault in a process that took about seven months with zero communication, then the account was deactivated with no way to reach anyone.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 312 days ago

Wanted to try the free tier but found it literally impossible to get an instance.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 312 days ago

From New Zealand, uses the Australian region for non-streaming workloads and a CGNAT workaround, and it works fantastically.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 312 days ago

Runs Immich on a single ARM core and 6GB RAM, which is overkill and works well.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 312 days ago

Uses a $4/month 1 vCPU, 512MB droplet connected to the home network via Twingate and finds it works great for HTTPS.

Reddit · r/devops · 315 days ago

Says DigitalOcean offers no way to remove a subscription or card and they were billed hundreds in fees.

Reddit · r/digital_ocean · 316 days ago

The control panel's AI assistant chat keeps reopening and wastes 30% of the screen, so they started trying alternatives.

Reddit · r/aws · 317 days ago

They run a fastapi, redis and worker setup on Lightsail containers for about $7 a month. They say it held up when about 25k signups arrived in under an hour, apart from the queue filling up.

Reddit · r/digital_ocean · 321 days ago

Their company has been on DigitalOcean 10+ years without issue, though they keep backups elsewhere.

Reddit · r/digital_ocean · 321 days ago

DigitalOcean flagged a long-time client for review and left droplets inaccessible for days until they publicly complained to the CEO.

Reddit · r/nextjs · 322 days ago

DigitalOcean App Platform is easy to set up but lacked SPA routing and catch-all routes, so they moved the front end back to Cloudflare Pages.

Reddit · r/digital_ocean · 323 days ago

They tried moving a few customers to DigitalOcean App Platform and found build times and performance slow. They say DigitalOcean VPS offerings are great.

Reddit · r/digital_ocean · 327 days ago

Evaluating a move from Heroku, found DigitalOcean's homepage API slower (432ms vs 355ms) despite 4x the CPU and RAM.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 328 days ago

They ran a high-traffic social media API on Fly.io across many regions, paying about $1,200-1,500 a month with awful uptime. They moved to Hetzner servers with Coolify and say the issues stopped.

Reddit · r/aws · 335 days ago

Starts a 32-core Graviton EC2 instance on demand and it boots to SSH in about five seconds.

Reddit · r/AZURE · 337 days ago

They were caught out by Private Endpoints that did not auto-delete after deployment and kept billing. They now always set up cost monitoring.

Reddit · r/AZURE · 337 days ago

They found unused Cosmos DB accounts with provisioned throughput, sometimes geo-replicated, and cutting each container to 100 RU/s trimmed almost 10 percent of their department's cloud spend. They also suspect Log Analytics ingestion costs are mostly unneeded.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 337 days ago

They say DigitalOcean would have simply deleted everything in a similar situation, as it has done to them in the past.

Reddit · r/AZURE · 338 days ago

A wrong SQL audit retention setting on an Azure SQL Database sent terabytes of audit files to blob storage, and they only noticed from a bill of around 4K dollars.

Reddit · r/AZURE · 339 days ago

They are new to Azure and were surprised by the cost of a simple Windows VM and Bastion. They found App Service ran dozens of apps for half the price of a Windows VM running IIS.

Reddit · r/AZURE · 339 days ago

They forgot to delete two Ultra disks with maximum IOPS for a week and got a 9k bill.

Reddit · r/AZURE · 339 days ago

They had to export a 12tb disk years ago, the download failed three times, and the egress bill was painful.

Reddit · r/AZURE · 339 days ago

They tried a free Databricks service on Azure and a week later their 5 dollar spending alert fired because of a NAT routing resource that was not visible in the portal. They deleted everything.

Reddit · r/AZURE · 339 days ago

They enabled a DNS security policy only to log DNS queries and were hit by per-query charges they had not anticipated, on top of Log Analytics costs.

Reddit · r/AZURE · 339 days ago

They sent about 6 TB out of Azure back to their game servers and found the egress cost painful.

Reddit · r/AZURE · 339 days ago

Defender was added without notice by their landing zones team and now makes up roughly 15% of their overall Azure costs. A fortnightly FinOps review caught it early.

Reddit · r/AZURE · 339 days ago

They find Log Analytics costs balloon, as even default monitoring rules and VM Insights log too much. They also note forgotten disks and backups add to the bill.

Reddit · r/AZURE · 339 days ago

They run several petabyte-tier blob accounts and say blob transaction costs are a ripoff comparable to Log Analytics ingestion, sometimes eating them alive.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 339 days ago

Has run a free-tier VM with a Minecraft server and side projects for about two years without issues, apart from a Next.js exploit that planted a crypto miner.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 340 days ago

Their whole Google Cloud account was suspended for alleged crypto-mining after a framework vulnerability, taking their SaaS down for about three days with no help from support. It was reinstated after a Google staffer escalated, though a Serverless VPC connector needed recreating.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 340 days ago

Their Google Cloud account was suspended in the same way, but using the appeal link from the email got it auto-unsuspended within minutes.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 341 days ago

Hosts game servers and a website on one Oracle free instance without using 50% of its power and no charges.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 344 days ago

After a year on GCP coming from AWS they liked the IAM and VPC SC controls, but found infrastructure orchestration via KCC inconsistent with the docs and full of service bugs. They want to go back to AWS.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 346 days ago

Their Google Cloud bill suddenly jumped to about 500 USD from Vertex AI usage they never made. They disabled the project and were still waiting on a reply from Google support.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 349 days ago

They find GCP provisioning hard because required permissions and API dependencies are undocumented, so tracking down a missing permission takes a long time. They say tasks that are easy on AWS struggle even with Gemini help.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 350 days ago

They had run one small VM on Google Cloud for years at about $10-11 a day, then a compromise ran up roughly $181,000 of Vertex AI charges. Support confirmed the compromise but refused any adjustment, citing a Startup classification, and costs kept accruing after billing was disabled.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 350 days ago

They run two web servers and a database on Oracle Cloud at no cost and mention it offers a budget setting to prevent runaway bills.

Reddit · r/webdev · 351 days ago

Render suspended all their services over one unpaid bill.

Reddit · r/webdev · 353 days ago

They pay about 20 dollars a month for a backend service plus SQL, with a free static frontend including CDN. They find it dead simple to use and say it has basically replaced Heroku for them.

Reddit · r/webdev · 353 days ago

Hosts four sites on a 5 dollar a month DigitalOcean server.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 357 days ago

They prefer AWS and dislike GCP hiding details from them, but find GCP folder and project structure better than multi-account AWS.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 357 days ago

They use Spanner as their company main database and say it removed the need for many ETL pipelines and handles vector, relational and search workloads.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 357 days ago

They went with GCP in 2017 and found latency low and consistent compared to AWS, and now manage about 145 active projects.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 357 days ago

They like GKE, Cloud Run, BigQuery, hierarchical IAM and the CLI and console, and even prefer Cloud SQL to RDS.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 357 days ago

They just migrated from RDS and find Cloud SQL weird, needing the proxy and extra paid connectors that RDS does not.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 357 days ago

They find Google App Engine easier to set up and more secure than AWS offerings, and nearly free for small jobs.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 357 days ago

They moved off GCP mainly because of lock in.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 357 days ago

They find most Google Cloud tools solid and like the org, folder and project structure, default security and logging, and especially Cloud Run.