Google cloud is definitely lower cost than AWS. We use them at IgniteNet and been very happy. We started on Digital Ocean. It seemed more for tinkering.
-Hal On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 12:20 PM Lewis Bergman <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 typeVirtual CPUsMemoryPrice (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? >
