There’s a really good chance it IS coincidence. Oracle Cloud has a history of straight up deleting “always free” tier VMs and data in Oracle Cloud. This has been going on for years.
I haven’t done any extensive looking at his situation specifically, but your link is more confusing than clarifying. He originally said his access was revoked and all his data deleted, but in your linked post it says his access to was revoked, but his server is still running. Is he saying that his VM still exists, the OS still running, but someone logged into the OS and specifically deleted all of his data leaving the server intact? That doesn’t sound likely, so I don’t understand what his situation is.
There’s a really good chance it IS coincidence. Oracle Cloud has a history of straight up deleting “always free” tier VMs and data in Oracle Cloud. This has been going on for years.
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But he said he was paying: https://mastodon.de/@ErikUden/113930315726322526
I haven’t done any extensive looking at his situation specifically, but your link is more confusing than clarifying. He originally said his access was revoked and all his data deleted, but in your linked post it says his access to was revoked, but his server is still running. Is he saying that his VM still exists, the OS still running, but someone logged into the OS and specifically deleted all of his data leaving the server intact? That doesn’t sound likely, so I don’t understand what his situation is.
Yeah that didn’t make sense to me either. Sounds to me like just because the billing is still running he concludes the server still runs as well.
Does that include permabanning the users too?