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Indeed I don't have other accounts here.
Why was I banned and unbanned? I don't know, I assume the moderators will let us know if they choose. Maybe my indirect onion-style reference to the "curse of knowledge" was interpreted to mean the opposite of what I intended? I cheerfully admit to knowing nothing about VPS - last time I used one was the 90s probably and I decided I don't want to use cloud again for side projects - that's why I'm here.
Edit: I guess surely that was either the early 2000s or the 90s but not a VPS just some cheap server... too long ago.
It's not only cloud operators either: I've personally witnessed a poor fellow worker trigger a pretty decent mobile comms bill very rapidly from a misconfiguration that I promise you would have been hard-pressed to spot (in the 10s of thousands of GBP). That's in the context of appliances in the field communicating over I guess 3G at the time with on premises servers, cloud was a new thing and we weren't using it. I don't think it got forgiven by the telco - the employer forgave him though!