Based on what I have read on many HN articles, what Cloudflare offers and what you receive are two very different products.
From being shut off when you have a incoming DDoS of some arbitrary size to actually loading webpages slower than your server does vanilla, it seems the benefits of Cloudflare are mostly hype.
For those saying hes a normal guy who just likes trolling, the article mentions "Michael Brutsch had sex with his step daughter"
He was also the creator of subreddits that dealt with glorifying beating women and children. He has 100% of the right to live on the line and be a griefer and/or troll. He also has 100% of the right to feel the wrath of people he pisses off.
As a internet free speech advocate, I am sad that things are in this situation. As a parent and decent human being, I am not. He is surely on many FBI lists now.
-Less than 500 daily users
-Original site could not handle 100 concurrent users
-Entire Dev team fired 2 years in and replaced
-Team that replaced fired team will likely now depart with Eric
1: You can remove 2 factor auth without having to enter the auth code. So if your computer gets a virus, someone can just remove 2 factor auth via your browser
2: The "app specific passwords" are full on backdoors. If one of your app specific passwords gets hijacked, someone can login to your gmail with it and then remove the 2 factor auth pass (See above)
"We have senior contacts at Google who we worked with in order to regain control of the Google Apps accounts"
Boy, its nice they get that privilege. I love gmail, but god help me the day I lose access to my account- I can only imagine the support whack-a-mole us mortals would have to go through to get any resolution.
Anyone remember the "thomas monopoly" story from a while back where gmail disabled the guy for weeks with no comment and the dude had to contact every person in the world to get someone to look at it? (And then they reinstated his account)
Is this users as in facebook installs, or users as in ios/android app installs. Big difference, as socialcam makes you authorize their facebook app to watch videos posted by other socialcam users via FB. Having those users add the socialcam app does not equal a app download, nor a active user in my opinion. Their only interaction was watching a video. Its the same thing as authorizing yahoo to read a story a friend posted. You can call that a "user" but you are just lieing to yourself. Its a glorified visit.
Still, its crazy impressive either way- But it does not compare to instagram style numbers if they are counting that. Instagram did their reported numbers in app downloads, not facebook auths.
You should edit your post to remove the 6th paragraph. Not your place to be calling pastie a increasing malware/virii distribution site. In fact, Not only is it libelous, but its not even appropriate to share with us. There is a reason companies dont get to comment on every bad thing that gets pointed their way.
IMO, your response does more damage to you than trying to explain it away. Doesnt matter if the guy is not paying you or not. In fact, your privacy policy says you wont do this and you just did.
I am not sure whats worse when you get hosted with you:
Is it when they disconnect you for having a incoming attack, or the public post afterwards where they air your dirty laundry?
This isnt a good thing, its a bad thing. Name.com basically buckled from a threat and made this user move to a new registrar.
Hopefully next time they dont demand name.com reveal private whois or something else. Good on them for not suspending the domain/user, but this was NOT the customers problem. They had a legitimate website and you chose to take the easy way out. You should not have asked the customer to leave to another host, you should have fixed the problem yourself.
It is your responsibility as a infrastructure provider to have adequate DDoS prevention in place. Passing the buck to every extortionist that comes in is not acceptable behavior.
Now that people know that name.com is easy to push around, I suspect much more of these attacks will be likely. Best not to use name.com nameservers apparently.
What is troubling about this is not that Google mistakenly removed the account.
What is troubling is:
1: This guy had to go to the fucking MOON to get his account back, ranting and raving on twitter like a mad man- and it took nearly a week!!
2: Google's support sucks- God help any of us who is in a similar position.
3: Even getting Google's attention is not enough. Since there is no formal appeals process, you have to harass Google employees in a informal method. Matt Cutts even said on a HN thread that "Google took the appropriate action" - So what is it? Did he break the TOS or not? This is the whole issue. Without a formal process, you just get knee jerk reactions. Any person other than this guy would have stopped trying after Matt essentially said he wasn't getting it back.
4: Even after all that, he did not even know why his account was deleted for a week.
5: For all Google's talk about data liberation, they suck with this. Takeout only gives you access to useless social crap and if you want to download your email its a long process that involves reading guides, using POP, IMAP, etc.. How about just giving me a link to download my mail?
6: No warnings, no contact- This could have all been solved if Google asked first and shot later.
When you break it down, its only 35 requests a second. Not a big deal at all. Any website that is relatively popular will do above and beyond that.