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How is actually Google compared to other cloud hosting providers in pricing? Is there any independent site that compares cloud hosting providers?

mikecb 10y ago
There are many comparisons, but you should find them yourself so you know where they came from. IMO, big benefits in billing per minute rather than hour, discounts applied automatically when running longer instances, up to 30% off for a whole month, rather than having to reserve it up front for discount, and instances that can be preempted vs the spot market(can save something like 70% off normal price). There's also the ability to customize proc and memory to your workload, so you're not paying for one or the other if you don't need it. They also recently added a feature that tells you if your vms are oversized for the work they've been doing, and what size would be most cost-efficient. I've been using it for a dozen or so personal projects, and never paid more than $30 or so per month. That's probably about 50% less than what I was using at AWS, and I would never have had the ability to use tools like bigquery (redshift on AWS), hadoop, etc, just because I wouldn't want to spin up a cluster for hours. All the logs from all those projects are costing a few cents per month in bigquery.
user5994461 10y ago
Depends on your usage. If you just need a few servers for your side projects. You should use one of the cheap providers: Digital Ocean/Linode/OVH/Hertzner. They're just a lot cheaper. If you need all the fancy features, typically because you're running a company (VPC, SAN drives, S3/cloud storage, load balancers...). You should use GCE instead of AWS. I'd say it's 20-50% cheaper in average.
- brianwawok 10y ago
  The cheapest GCE server is $4 something a month. How much us that $5 digital ocean server saving you? Yes the DO has better specs but for most projects you won't notice (for example local sad)
  - user5994461 10y ago
    GCE/AWS: $n for the server + $2 for the hard disk + $y for the bandwidth + some other surprises we'll only find out later. Digital Ocean really is $5, fixed, all inclusive. That's the difference ;)
    - brianwawok 10y ago
      I hosted a WordPress site on GCE for under $5 all in. Then when I wanted to move to hosted SQL.... Took 3 clicks.

mikecb 10y ago

There are many comparisons, but you should find them yourself so you know where they came from. IMO, big benefits in billing per minute rather than hour, discounts applied automatically when running longer instances, up to 30% off for a whole month, rather than having to reserve it up front for discount, and instances that can be preempted vs the spot market(can save something like 70% off normal price). There's also the ability to customize proc and memory to your workload, so you're not paying for one or the other if you don't need it. They also recently added a feature that tells you if your vms are oversized for the work they've been doing, and what size would be most cost-efficient. I've been using it for a dozen or so personal projects, and never paid more than $30 or so per month. That's probably about 50% less than what I was using at AWS, and I would never have had the ability to use tools like bigquery (redshift on AWS), hadoop, etc, just because I wouldn't want to spin up a cluster for hours. All the logs from all those projects are costing a few cents per month in bigquery.

user5994461 10y ago

Depends on your usage. If you just need a few servers for your side projects. You should use one of the cheap providers: Digital Ocean/Linode/OVH/Hertzner. They're just a lot cheaper. If you need all the fancy features, typically because you're running a company (VPC, SAN drives, S3/cloud storage, load balancers...). You should use GCE instead of AWS. I'd say it's 20-50% cheaper in average.

brianwawok 10y ago
The cheapest GCE server is $4 something a month. How much us that $5 digital ocean server saving you? Yes the DO has better specs but for most projects you won't notice (for example local sad)
- user5994461 10y ago
  GCE/AWS: $n for the server + $2 for the hard disk + $y for the bandwidth + some other surprises we'll only find out later. Digital Ocean really is $5, fixed, all inclusive. That's the difference ;)
  - brianwawok 10y ago
    I hosted a WordPress site on GCE for under $5 all in. Then when I wanted to move to hosted SQL.... Took 3 clicks.