Accounts get banned at 2am. Funds get frozen for 180 days. Prices triple once you're locked in. These guides are for that exact moment — what to do in the first 48 hours, how to recover, and how to rebuild so it can never happen to you twice.
Every guide in this section follows the same promise: no theory, no panic, just the playbook. You'll find step-by-step recovery plans for Stripe account bans and PayPal fund freezes, technical walkthroughs for switching payment providers without losing subscribers, and exit plans for hosts and email services that change the deal after you've built on them.
We write these because we've lived them. Dough exists because getting deplatformed shouldn't be an extinction event — when your payments, email and hosting sit behind swappable layers, a provider turning on you is a config change, not a rewrite. But whether you use Dough or not, these guides will get you through the fire and show you how to fireproof what you rebuild.
Start with the guide that matches your emergency. If nothing's on fire yet — read them anyway. The best time to remove a single point of failure is before it fails.
In January 2022, a woman named Lena Evans discovered that PayPal had taken $26,984 out of her account. Not frozen it. Taken it. Her account …
Stripe Banned My Account: What to Do in the First 48 Hours
