Google Compute Engine - General Availability

VPNsh

So GCE is now available to the general public. Their lowest priced package comes in at almost twice the cost of a LEB ($0.019/hour - roughly $13.68/month).

f1-micro    1 Shared CPU Core   0.60GB RAM  0 Local Disk    $0.019 Price Per Hour (US Hosted)   $0.021 Price Per Hour (EU Hosted)

Thoughts? Will this take off? Any benefits over alternatives?

Read more here: https://cloud.google.com/products/compute-engine/

dhamaniasad

said: Will this take off? Any benefits over alternatives?

Its Google, they'll spend millions on advertising this.

ErawanArifNugroho

For GCE, it's not included with Disk, so what can we do without disk? Sorry for asking this, because I'm new in cloud,

tchen

It's meant for parallel computing, not hosting. The f1-micro is meant as a receptionist for any cluster you spin up due to a compute request, hence why it's so low powered.

Shamli

USD16 for me...just left it idle with stock debian 7.....

nonuby

It will be popular with screen scrapers. A faked user-agent of Google Bot and a Google registered IP, you'd have to be on the ball to recognize that..

hiphiphip0

I tried it,not very convenient.

BuyCPanel_Alex

I don't think this is that bad of an idea, what if you want to run a CPU intensive program and don't really have the funds to get a dedicated/VPS for a month.

concerto49

@ErawanArifNugroho said:
For GCE, it's not included with Disk, so what can we do without disk? Sorry for asking this, because I'm new in cloud,

You get the persistent disk - purchased separately.

Netxons

It still look simple and nice will catch a time playing with.

seikan

I got one Small instance running. So far so good.

CPU model : 06/2d

Number of cores : 1

CPU frequency : 2599.998 MHz

Total amount of ram : 1699 MB

Total amount of swap : 0 MB

System uptime : 71 days, 21:46,

Download speed from CacheFly: 16.7MB/s

Download speed from Coloat, Atlanta GA: 10.4MB/s

Download speed from Softlayer, Dallas, TX: 13.2MB/s

Download speed from Linode, Tokyo, JP:

Download speed from Linode, London, UK: 12.6MB/s

Download speed from Leaseweb, Haarlem, NL: 9.50MB/s

Download speed from Softlayer, Singapore: 7.71MB/s

Download speed from Softlayer, Seattle, WA: 13.7MB/s

Download speed from Softlayer, San Jose, CA: 11.3MB/s

Download speed from Softlayer, Washington, DC: 15.2MB/s

I/O speed : 44.5 MB/s

DeftNerd

@Nonuby - That's a brilliant observation, thanks!

Maounique

@seikan said:
I got one Small instance running. So far so good.

That doesnt look much better than the majority of the LEBs how much was it ?

seikan

Maounique said: That doesnt look much better than the majority of the LEBs how much was it ?

I got the free $1000 credits to run this. It's about $40/month. Not worth it, but good uptime.