What is a reasonable money expenditure to migrate off a platform when you could look at the company record and see that you're much better off just choosing a different platform? Is a week or a month of dev hours worth putting your faith in a company notorious for randomly shuttering products?
I feel like Google marketing has no idea the absolute monster of a problem they've created by allowing their business to get a reputation for being extremely unreliable in the B2B space.
What is ample time for a company that hired a webdev one time to build them a static website and never checks webmaster@domain emails?
That kind of outfit is much more likely to be a victim of missed renewal or a myriad other technical screwups than a Google-initiated exit of the registrar business.
I feel like Google marketing has no idea the absolute monster of a problem they've created by allowing their business to get a reputation for being extremely unreliable in the B2B space.
They can certainly count on a spate of hyperventilating HN posts whenever they announce any kind of service-related news.
More seriously, their most celebrated servicides are consumer-oriented, like Google Reader. "Extremely unreliable in the B2B space" sounds like an exaggeration to me.
I'd also suggest just bringing your tone down, this isn't a fight and calling people on the other side of the argument "hyperventilating" doesn't really do anything to promote meaningful discussion.
Best case was GSuite/Workspace, and not the recent one. I had a startup in the freezer (developed a lot of IP nights and weekends, but we needed to stop for about a year). Google sent two emails about the domain being idle, but filed its own emails as spam. If I don't log in within some time period, so I lost the domain. Google wiped out all the data of that startup.
Just because I don't check my gmail spam folder often enough.
I'm also slowly degooglifying my life (and recommending the same to everyone around me). There is another grouping of two types of people: (1) Ones who don't do business with Google anymore (2) Ones who won't. That one took more incidents than backups.
Failures happen, disks get corrupted, bugs wipe stuff, cloud providers terminate idle accounts, failures happen everywhere in life.
Back up your stuff and have a plan B.
It's 2022. You dont need to "have a sysops background" to know or be able to backup your data.
The cost of backups also depends on your income. Stories like this led to more backups, but so did going from being a student, to first-job-out-of-college, to a senior employee.
There's a spectrum between a hard drive costing a full day's work at minimum wage to a few minutes work for a Googler, Amazonian, or a Metamate making $500k/year.
People said this about almost every service they ever surprise killed. Just let go of this idea that you cannot imagine this for whatever good reason, because other people have made this mistake before you :)