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You are also out of luck if you ever used a trail with your account before. Got this message: "Sorry, you aren't eligible for a free trial at this time. The fr
by nisa 10y ago
You are also out of luck if you ever used a trail with your account before.
Got this message: "Sorry, you aren't eligible for a free trial at this time. The free trial is for new customers only."
The specs:
Always Free Usage Limits
As part of ... Free Tier, Compute Engine offers an amount of usage that is free to use, up to a specific limit. If you go over these usage limits and are no longer in the free trial period, you will be charged according to the price sheet.
1 f1-micro VM instance per month (US regions only).
- f1-micro: 600MB memory, 0.2vCPU that can burst up to a full core.
30 GB of HDD persistent disk storage per month.
5 GB of snapshot storage per month.
1 GB egress from North America to other destinations per month (excluding Australia and China).
- not sure what that means, you have to pay for traffic from Australia/China? 1TB is 119€ through.
https://cloud.google.com/compute/pricing#internet_egress https://cloud.google.com/compute/pricing#internet_egress
For f1-micro instances, you receive free usage equivalent to the number of total hours within the current month, enough to run one instance without interruption for the entire month.
- Ajedi32 10y ago> You are also out of luck if you ever used a trail with your account before. > > Got this message: "Sorry, you aren't eligible for a free trial at this time. The free trial is for new customers only." That's just for the $300 free credit though, right? You can still use all the "Always Free" services.
- nisa 10y agoNot sure, I have a credit card there and 0€ balance, can't find the knob for the free tier, when I create a f1-micro I'm billed. Maybe I have to put up money?
- Ajedi32 10y agoAccording to [the FAQ][1] it seems like you just use the instances like normal and you won't be billed as long as you don't exceed the free usage limits... [1]: https://cloud.google.com/free/docs/frequently-asked-questions#always-free https://cloud.google.com/free/docs/frequently-asked-question...
- nisa 10y agolet's try and see :) - thanks!
- hocuspocus 10y ago> - not sure what that means, you have to pay for traffic from Australia/China? 1TB is only 19cent through: $190 :) egress rates are per GB. I wonder if there's an easy way to disable traffic coming from those regions.
- nisa 10y agoThanks for pointing that out! Crazy! If you don't need the fancy click&play cloud experience you are so much better off with online.net or hetzner.de IMHO.
- hocuspocus 10y agoI know cheap VPS providers but if I could host a small webapp for free forever, that'd be nice! AWS free tier is valid one year only. Bandwidth is typically easy to monitor (to stay within the 1GB/month), but disabling egress to specific regions sounds much trickier.
- hdra 10y agoActually, AWS have some Always Free tier that doesn't expire after 12 months as well (https://aws.amazon.com/free/ https://aws.amazon.com/free/), although it doesn't look like it includes a VPS of any kind.
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- dragonwriter 10y ago> You are also out of luck if you ever used a trail with your account before. No, if you've used a trial you won't get another trial, but that doesn't affect your eligibility for the free tier.