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> Use of the Cloud Shell is free through the end of 2015: you will not be charged for any resource utilization. Would be nice if they could have stated how muc
by p0ppe 11y ago
> Use of the Cloud Shell is free through the end of 2015: you will not be charged for any resource utilization.
Would be nice if they could have stated how much it's going to cost later on. We're less than three months from 2016.
- Filligree 11y agoWell, it's a micro instance. At most it'll cost what a micro instance costs.
- CamatHN 11y ago0.005 p/h ~ $3.60 per month for those who were wondering.
- kuschku 11y agoSo $1.20 more per month than more powerful VPS from competitors like OVH.
- markvdb 11y agoI normally am quite reserved about language use, but comparing google to OVH? Seriously? OVH is a dysfunctional company that somehow turns a profit. We almost lost our company's domain name twice due to their incompetence.
- limeyy 11y agoTwice? Well....
- markvdb 11y agoWhich is why we moved away from them of course...
- wineisfine 11y agoRight, ovh is fine as long as you don't need their support
- hbogert 11y agoWhy is OVH dysfunctional? My dedicated server is running splendid for 2y now.
- KirinDave 11y agoTheir customer service is notoriously... "hit or miss."
- vidarh 11y agoSounds like Google. (Used OVH for several years, but my server with them has an uptime of 1034 days as of today, so customer service might very well be useless - I've never had a reason to talk to them)
- KirinDave 11y agoI used OVH and had a terrible, terrible, demanded a refund experience. But I have something that approximates bad luck. See my earlier posts about Project Fi.
- markvdb 11y agoFor non-critical things, they provide relatively good value for money. For critical things, I wouldn't touch them with a ten foot pole.
- hyyypr 11y agoPlease, make your contribution worth something by explaining your issues with OVH. I've been a very happy customer for years now.
- markvdb 11y agoWe paid OVH for the renewal of our company's domain name several weeks before its expiration. This domain hosted our google apps for business and more. We received an invoice and bank statements for that. OVH never renewed with the registry. We only got to know about this because of a standard email warning from the country's registry (not OVH as a registrar) itself about quarantaine and expiry! We spent over eight hours over several days talking to OVH. I have been able to verify that the problem was on the side of OVH only, and not on the registry's side at all. In the end, we made a direct payment to the registry to make sure the domain was not deleted.
- CydeWeys 11y agoI understand worrying about burn rate and all that, but when the entire service costs the same as a single cup of coffee per month, it might just not matter. How well it works, what features it provides, and how well it interfaces with the rest of the cloud services you're using are much, much more important concerns than saving a buck a month.
- kuschku 11y agoWell, not always. As a student, you don’t want to spend 4$ for a cloud console, plus 4$ for cloud IRC, plus 20$ for a VPS, plus 12$ for your phone contract, plus 120$ for a new phone every 2 years... I – like most people – don’t let useless devices run on standby either, costing me upwards of 30$ a year for a TV on standby. As a student, I don’t buy totally overpriced coffee that costs that much either.
- anthony_d 11y agoA sure sign of a weak argument is including the phrase "... like most people ..." Do you really think most people unplug their televisions after using them?
- kuschku 11y agoMost people use socket strips with switches for their TV, yes. At 40ct per kWh, no one can afford to let that shit run 24/7.
- aianus 11y agoWhere is that? That's literally 4-6x more expensive than my electricity.
- kuschku 11y agoGermany, for example (Where I live). Most people don’t live in the US, and for most people wasting 1.20$ for a product where you save one or two lines of code to integrate it is not okay. I seriously rewrote several web products myself that I'd have to normally pay 4$ or so per month for. I took over development for the QuasselDroid Android client because I could not afford IRCCloud. I ended up rewriting all the features of Reddit Gold last night as a browser extension because I can’t afford wasting money on Reddit Gold. It’s problematic wasting money in one place, but for a dozen services at once? Nope, that’s gonna bankrupt a student who has no income except for a small grant.
- boulos 11y agoThat's the rate though. For little sessions here and there during your working hours and per-minute billing, I feel like it'll be unusual to do more than say 5 hours a week even if you often forget to exit before the "garbage collector" turns it off for you. That gets you into below $1/month territory pretty easily. Disclaimer: I work on Compute Engine but not Cloud Shell.
- zmmmmm 11y agoThere seems to be 5GB of associated storage ... would be interested to know if they are charging for that or if it's part of your wider Google allocation or if there's an ongoing cost once you generate data in there that will keep charging forever, even if you use the service only intermittently?
- metric10 11y agoThey likely don't know how this is going to be used, so they want to gather usage statistics (both user and resource) to determine what it should cost.
- Corrado 11y agoAnother question is how much bandwidth do you get for free? Could I run a torrent tracker on it or SSH tunnel video streams?