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Thinking of it that way for single-node configurations (or static collections of multiple nodes) makes sense, yes. A lot of the promise of GCE and GCP generall
by jsolson 10y ago
Thinking of it that way for single-node configurations (or static collections of multiple nodes) makes sense, yes.
A lot of the promise of GCE and GCP generally come from on-demand scalability, autoscaling, serverless, etc. Those become much more relevant as projects scale from a small set of fairly static resource requirements to larger and more dynamic usage. Take a hypothetical online retailer -- they might need few hundred cores at night while their users are asleep, a few thousand during the day, and tens of thousands on, say, black Friday. GCE lets you do that kind of scaling as-needed rather than having to provision far in advance (although there are pricing advantages if you can commit to cores and RAM over the long term).
(note: I work on GCE)
- Mithorium 10y agoso this free* f1-micro instance of GCE, with the most basic usage of say, running a slack bot/nginx/random test projects, without the need for dynamic scaling, would be functionally identical to a VM anywhere else? can I keep it on 24/7? can I ssh to it, or do I need to use this cloud shell thing? can I have one of every free tier thing or does free tier mean choose one from the set *subject to change
- fp1989 10y agoYou can do everything the same as a regular instance f1-micro. There is no functional distinction. It is simply that you do not get charged for the equivalent of 1-instance month worth of usage. You can use the free tier of every product listed in conjunction with one another. No need to pick and choose. I work for GCP and was the lead for the Always Free launch.
- Mithorium 10y agoI noticed that GCE instances only offer 1GB of network egress, and then $0.12/GB thereafter, which seems rather steep. Is GCE only meant for use as a CPU engine/internal node of some kind? Is there a different product meant for edge servers that would handle external requests with outgoing traffic?
- dragonwriter 10y ago> Is there a different product meant for edge servers that would handle external requests with outgoing traffic? For some workloads, using Cloud CDN will save money, since cache egress is $0.08/GB (to North America.)
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