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Google Compute Engine is open to the public
A few days old, but at Google I/O they opened GCE up to everyone!
https://cloud.google.com/products/compute-engine
https://cloud.google.com/pricing/compute-engine
Their cheapest plan is the f1-micro instance (like EC2's Micro instance), at $0.019/hour (in the US; Europe is slightly more expensive), which is $13.68/month (not including disk and bandwidth costs).
I've tried it myself and the machines are alright, but (just like EC2), the shared CPU on the f1-micro instance is pretty bad. Here's the FreeVPS benchmark results on it (us-central1-a):
CPU model : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU @ 2.60GHz
Number of cores : 1
CPU frequency : 2599.996 MHz
Total amount of ram : 592 MB
Total amount of swap : 0 MB
System uptime : 0 min,
Download speed from CacheFly: 10.5MB/s
Download speed from Coloat, Atlanta GA: 10.1MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Dallas, TX: 10.2MB/s
Download speed from Linode, Tokyo, JP: 7.60MB/s
Download speed from i3d.net, NL: 6.28MB/s
Download speed from Leaseweb, Haarlem, NL: 8.79MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Singapore: 5.64MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Seattle, WA: 9.47MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, San Jose, CA: 9.97MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Washington, DC: 9.61MB/s
I/O speed : 16.5 MB/s
I also ran a ServerBear benchmark on the n1-standard-1-d instance earlier: http://serverbear.com/benchmark/2013/05/20/XOCsyJkKe6Y3q9H1
The cloud console is pretty neat, too. I suppose it'll be improved over time.
Thoughts on GCE? I think it'll eventually catch up to AWS, along with their other cloud services.
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Wow, sound promising. Will try out when got the chance.
raw performance isn't good, but i'm guessing they're selling based on a solid backend, security and reliability
Yup, I expect Google to do pretty good with this; their Cloud Storage service has been awesome for the time I've used it.
It's a shame there's no free quota like AWS do. I can only imagine they'll add it eventually since they're doing the same with App Engine anyway.
On a slightly related note, looks like PHP is limitedly available for App Engine: https://gaeforphp.appspot.com/
BEST OF LUCK TO GOOGLE... ANY EXPECTED EFFECT TO NORMAL VPS PROVIDERS?
PHP off Jetty. Simple mod.
Their pricing scheme is so confusing!
Not to LEB providers at least.
They mentioned in their I/O meeting it's the actual PHP 5.4 interpreter, with limited extensions. Seems to be that way, too: http://php-minishell.appspot.com/phpinfo
Slightly, yeah. I hope they'll neaten up their pricing page soon.
To the likes of Rackspace/Amazon/Linode and others, yes. Probably not for LEB users though.
Honestly, google is the last provider i would trust to not peek at my private data.