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Google Compute Engine - General Availability
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/
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Its Google, they'll spend millions on advertising this.
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,
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.
USD16 for me...just left it idle with stock debian 7.....
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..
I tried it,not very convenient.
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.
You get the persistent disk - purchased separately.
It still look simple and nice will catch a time playing with.
I got one Small instance running. So far so good.
@Nonuby - That's a brilliant observation, thanks!
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.