Cloud is indeed expensive. I've heard it from many people many times. It solves
some needs, but it is not good for many. It is not the holy grail.
-----
Mike Hammett
Intelligent Computing Solutions
Midwest Internet Exchange
The Brothers WISP
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lewis Bergman" <lewis.berg...@gmail.com>
To: "Animal Farm" <af@afmug.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2017 11:20:18 AM
Subject: [AFMUG] Google Cloud
Speaking of cloud based, has anyone used Google Cloud? I have been getting
emails and just looked into it. The pricing seems to cheap to be true. I
ditched Amazon AppStream2.0 when I forgot to turn off my app and received a
$650 bill for leaving it up all month. They refunded the money since I had
documented my troubles making their deployment tool working but the point is
it's expensive. I can host a real sever at a data center for less than that.
Below are examples of "monthly standard machine" pricing. They have customer
and by minute billing if you can do it that way. I don't know if they can
schedule start and stop times for instances. Machine type Virtual CPUs Memory
Price (USD) Preemptible price (USD) n1-standard-1 1 3.75GB $24.2725
$7.30
n1-standard-2 2 7.5GB $48.55 $14.60
n1-standard-4 4 15GB $97.09 $29.20
They have others as well. Anyway, anyone used them, know anything about them,
etc?
