Welcome to the club... Stripe is a scumbag company that treat their clients like trash/criminals. Keep sending them emails via dashboard and also reply to their emails. Twitter/X may also be worth trying. Find a serious credit card payment gateway, even if you've to pay more fees. GL.

says who?

Yea I've always wondered why people take their cars to the mechanic, and go off to the Dr themselves. Everyone should be an expert in everything, why offload something you don't fully understand to a 3rd party? Just spend all your spare time becoming an expert in the domain with which you currently struggle, and you'll never need to rely on anyone again.

PS: This was written by power generated by a generator I built myself, it's super relia

Convenience and reliability. This is the first major data loss story I've heard related to drive in, what, a decade? 5 years?

On average, I lose two or three local media devices every decade. I will happily outsource that problem to somebody with full-time concerns of backup and restoration. Especially at the price point of free.

Sharing personal and business documents with a third party provides no real "convenience" despite any initial perception. If you haven't yet comprehended this, rest assured that you will soon. It's essential to recognize that convenience and privacy typically stand in opposite realms, offering divergent outcomes.

I have a relative with complicated medical needs whom I provide a lot of medical liaison labor for. Along with the rest of the family.

The ability to consolidate his medical history into a Google Doc and have it synchronized across devices, history-stamped, and accessible by the family members who are helping him is life-changing. It has kept him in his own home for years longer than of we lacked these technologies because it allows us to seamlessly coordinate his care among visits and specialists better than the local hospital network does.

When people say "provides no real convenience," I have to conclude they don't have the challenges we face.

This tech has quietly changed the world for the better.

> convenience and privacy typically stand in opposite realms

And thank God the trade-off can be made. We damaged the efficacy of medical care in the name of privacy in this country; were can use Google Docs to counterweight that in our family. If Google gets to know intimate details of my relative's cascading dementia as a consequence, fine.

The real convenience is to be able to collaborate on a document in real time with pretty much any of my clients anywhere in the world. If you can tell me how I can do this reliably myself for less than $100 a month using a frictionless browser based interface that is acceptable to my corporate clients I’m all ears.

> This is the first major data loss story I've heard related to drive in, what, a decade? 5 years?

Not bad, but still... no copy, no data.

True, but it's always good to have a backup of Google Drive through something like Syncdocs or Duplicati.

Yes, you just can't have data in one copy if you care about it. It's a cliche at this point: There are two kinds of people... those who do backups and those who will. I upgraded involuntarily long time ago.

In a world where almost no individual has good backup discipline, cloud storage has helped them stave off the data reaper much longer than they would have alone.

Two or more copies is still the inescapable rule, but having a cloud store is preferable to no cloud store.

Wondering why you want to be a part of a bunch of wanna-be virtue signaling coders with an elitist pre-approval process, fk them.

Interesting conversation on healthcare security, shrug

I've the same problems described on your post and your idea is great. I'll try to contribute as soon as I can.

Redirection from http to https is trivial on most http servers (nginx, apache, etc)

You'll get back to the free trial once you need new clients again. It's just a matter of how many competitors you have.

Have you thought about offering downloadable versions of to the database through MMDB, CSV, or JSON formats? This would enable users to utilize the database offline, similar to the setup provided by IPinfo.io for their free IP database.

Yeah, if you click on "bulk data" you'll see the two statically hosted CSVs for ASN and IP data. What else would you find useful in those datasets? It's quite easy to expand on them.

I suppose I was overly enthusiastic about the project and overlooked the bulk part . Thank you. Personally, I prefer to use local MMDB versions as they provide faster results and do not require network usage. Having knowledge about whether an IP is a proxy, VPN, data center, etc. is valuable to me, but I understand that it may vary depending on each project's requirements.

Without wishing to gazump on tuga's excellent project, you can get mmdb files for IPs and ASNs free for personal use from https://ipnetdb.com/ that will probably provide the data you want.

(Disclaimer: I work for the company that develops IPNetDB).

Countries.

The country code is the last portion of the networks CSV:

  $ curl -sL ip.guide/bulk/networks.csv | head -n 2
  prefix,asn,organization,country
  1.0.0.0/24,13335,"Cloudflare, Inc.",US

I meant something like de.csv to get a list of IP ranges in Germany.

I'm just speculating, but it's possible that one of the services you utilized with your catch-all account attempted to check if the same password was used for other services. Alternatively, the VPS network might be inadequately configured, enabling tools like tcpdump or Wireshark to intercept network traffic.

Interesting points, thank you. Both seem quite possible.

I don't use any of this shit, absofuckinglutely 0, just trash for the brain.