Grace period on Google cloud storage
I use Google Drive (cheap, easy, effective) and had around 60 Gb of largely photo files loaded up. Due to domestic distractions I allowed the plan to run out when my payment card details changed (Google didn't offer me a direct debit plan, so it is tied to the life of the payment card). Result, notice of account being deleted, not access to the non-free volume of files.
About four days later I updated my payment details, and lo and behold all my files reappeared instantly. So there is some period of grace. The paranoid may have a concern that this means Google retain copies of your files after your plan ends, but (a) these people won't have signed up for Google Drive in the first place, and (b) isn't this what we'd expect?
Can't say how long this works for, but I'm guessing it is for the thirty days that Drive holds deleted versions of files.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
