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I guess freevps.us has already been shut down and it is now in read-only/archive mode.
https://freevps.us/thread-22094.html
That 1GB bandwidth is for both in and out, or is only for out?
Out: inbound traffic is not billed.
Awesome. So it can actually be used for something. I am thinking of using one for 1Fichier, to download all content in /dev/null and keep all terabytes in hot storage. Can anybody share a benchmark or bandwidth speed (with no outbound) ?
It's a solid offering. Despite what the paranoids may say, Google is way more trustworthy with data privacy than whatever discount $3 vps services you can get from sketchy businesses based out of China or Singapore.
The free tier limits are very generous on just about any GCP product. Compute engine is actually probably the least generous free tier limit out of everything - it's capped pretty low because it's the most easily misused service on there.
If you follow basic security common sense best practices for anything publically accessible to the internet, you'll be fine. Those are basically:
Use your fucking firewall
Never use Windows in a production environment
Keep your shit updated
Don't upload your credential files or API keys to fucking GitHub
Don't expose web admin consoles to 0.0.0.0/0 (see point 1)
Don't do anything monumentally stupid, which usually involves some special combination of the above rules (like enabling password login for SSH with port 22 set to "please pwn me" in the firewall, user "admin", and password "1234")
You would be surprised how many people have trouble following these rules. If you wanna go for extra credit, it's worth going the extra mile and running nmap -Pn --script vuln [server IP/URL] occasionally to scan for obvious security holes.
The infrastructure is simple, elegant, and designed by engineers instead of business commitees. As a result the system does not require large amounts of duct tape Terraform scripts to avoid falling apart. I think some people mistake this for vendor lock in or something.
OP, you should also look into serving static sites directly out of buckets - you don't actually need an instance at all for that. Also, WordPress is terrible, and if static will meet your needs you should take a look at Hugo.
Fair disclaimer, I work for a consulting company that uses GCP heavily, and am fairly biased on this topic.
@default said:
I tried twice with geekbench but it never finished. This is what I got with serverscope.io
CPU model : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU @ 2.00GHz
Number of cores : 1
CPU frequency : 2000.186 MHz
Total size of Disk : 29.5 GB (4.6 GB Used)
Total amount of Mem : 581 MB (176 MB Used)
Total amount of Swap : 0 MB (0 MB Used)
System uptime : 1 days, 1 hour 59 min Load average : 1.67, 0.51, 0.18
OS : Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS
Arch : x86_64 (64 Bit)
Kernel : 4.15.0-1036-gcp
I/O speed(1st run) : 37.4 MB/s I/O speed(2nd run) : 37.5 MB/s
I/O speed(3rd run) : 37.5 MB/s
Average I/O speed : 37.5 MB/s
Node Name IPv4 address Download Speed
CacheFly 205.234.175.175 124MB/s
Linode, Tokyo, JP 106.187.96.148 10.5MB/s
Linode, Singapore, SG 139.162.23.4 2.51MB/s
Linode, London, UK 176.58.107.39 15.6MB/s
Linode, Frankfurt, DE 139.162.130.8 17.6MB/s
Linode, Fremont, CA 50.116.14.9 21.0MB/s
Softlayer, Dallas, TX 173.192.68.18 31.3MB/s
Softlayer, Seattle, WA 67.228.112.250 15.5MB/s
Softlayer, Frankfurt, DE 159.122.69.4 6.11MB/s
Softlayer, Singapore, SG 119.81.28.170 4.83MB/s
Softlayer, HongKong, CN 119.81.130.170 5.45MB/s
Thanks for the tip, I'll look into it. I just wanted something simple, I figured there were probably better ways, there are always better ways
What are the advantages of using buckets and Hugo btw?
GCP is the top tier of providers.
Tour of a google data center:
There do offer a lot of free services:
https://cloud.google.com/free/
I still haven't figured out what some of them actually do.
Doing anything with Anthos yet ?
using it for almost two years too, scheduled job, mostly backup script, not for public services.
tips: no charge for bandwidth across google infrastructure. iykwim
Wow, you can tell how often I visit there :-)
Too bad, though I guess it's not surprising that a forum full of people seeking free VPSes would be a pain in the ass to manage. Probably even worse than a forum full of people seeking cheap VPSes.
Keep in mind that downloading always incurs some upload traffic, basically for receipt confirmations, or as they are called, "ACKs". Running
iperfon my LAN to a different host, for 950 Mbit download I get 3.5 Mbits of upload. That's 0.3%, which means you will exhaust the 1GB of the included upload bandwidth after downloading just about 330 GB -- far from "terabytes".apnadata.com are shit spammers.
It was funding related. No ad revenue and not enough sponsors.
Reading through that thread, there was a high degree of hassle - MyBB updates, forum spam, etc.
The whole thing had to run on razor-thin margins, and I admire @dmmcintyre3 for making it work for so long.
Yea i think he funded the VMs out of his pocket for a while at the end.
you can also get free google firebase if you just want to host a website
This is so simple the free Google cloud vm isn't meant for hosting but for back end operations of other gcp products beside the free 300 dollars credit.
Interesting, can you point me to a guide?
@479555 the pricing page shows the features- probably a good starting point https://firebase.google.com/pricing
Interesting. Even if the IRC Server is outside USA?
+1
Also been using a wip blog w/gcp and ghost for a few months now. Nothing to complain about
I understand that you are a fan of Google, but please stop spreading BS. There is NOTHING free with Google (and facebook, and ...)! You always pay! And frankly, I prefer paying with money rather than with my data, privacy, and liberty.
And btw, in most (I guess) jurisdictions using a free service also means to not have rights to demand anything (like e.g. quality). If on the other hand one pays, even if it's only a small amount, on does have those rights.
If one is capable to do that sensibly. If one isn't, one might actually create one of the really dangerous monsters in terms of security: to feel secure but to not be secure.
Personally, I agree. But I fail to see why a poor Windows setup is less secure than a poor linux setup.
Not at all. Actually I'm surprised to see someone having a reasonably well configured system.
Thanks (I mean it) for being honest.
no credit card ? maybe
There are way too many usage restrictions in their docs. If I have to choose a free service I'd rather go with 000webhosting
Now there's a name I hadn't heard in a while. Wonder what will happen with it regarding cpanel. It's not a vps though.
I used it before switching to GCP and it was painfully slow and they put banners on your site...
Really, Wordpress' admin console was so slow to be unusable!
Your 3rd paragraph is one reason for me.
The feeling of purchasing a VPS for an entire year, at the price of a coffee is better than being given a free VPS. Hard to explain, but that's also another reason. Plus, I like to support the providers here.