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by hypeatei 98 days ago
I've always wondered how these types of "waived" accounts are coded in the backend. Are there flags in a table (i.e. first class support) or is it hacked together with duct tape? Seems like OVH is using the latter solution.
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Sounds like 'prepaid balance transferred by accounting and manually entered into DB', which is then consumed slowly until outage.