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Since it's not mentioned in the linked page, it's worth mentioning that the free trial in GCP is now $300 for 12 months [1]. Previously it was $300 for 60 days.

Since it's not mentioned in the linked page, it's worth mentioning that the free trial in GCP is now $300 for 12 months [1]. Previously it was $300 for 60 days. IMO this is a major change since GCP is much better positioned to attract developers just getting started who used to gravitate towards the AWS free trial mainly because of the longer trial period of 12 months. The new non expiring free tier in GCP (aka Always Free Usage Limits) also offers a f1-micro instance while AWS does not offer a VM as part of their non expiring free tier. [1] https://cloud.google.com/free/docs/frequently-asked-questions#free-trial https://cloud.google.com/free/docs/frequently-asked-question...

unwind 10y ago
Perhaps worth pointing out that the $300 you're referring to is the amount of credit you're given when doing the free trial. As in, you can spend $300 worth of computing resources over 12 months, for free. I totally failed to understand that (I'm not very cloudy) and had to go to their sign-up page to figure out what was up.
JorgeGT 10y ago
> The new non expiring free tier in GCP (aka Always Free Usage Limits) also offers a f1-micro instance However in order to do this you have to enable billing, unlike with the free tier of App Engine. I'm always wary of these things because I fear I'll screw up and run into a huge bill somehow. I currently have a pre-paid 1€/month VPS with $european_competitor to prevent this.
- ktta 10y ago
  1€/month?! What kind of performance are you getting? Is it usage for a web server? Would you mind sharing the VPS provider?
  - JorgeGT 10y ago
    I would say the performance is quite good for the price, I use it as a web dashboard/alerting server with InfluxDB+Grafana and it is quite snappy when browsing the graphs and so on. No problem sharing the provider, ArubaCloud, I just didn't want to sound like an advert.
    - eriknstr 10y ago
      https://www.arubacloud.com/vps/configurator-virtual-private-server.aspx https://www.arubacloud.com/vps/configurator-virtual-private-... Well, well, well, turns out they offer FreeBSD 10. If it upgrades nicely to FreeBSD 11 then I think they've earned themselves a customer and Vultr will have lost one customer due to Vultr no longer giving best bang for the buck. Moving to ArubaCloud would give me 1GB RAM + 20GB SSD instead of the 768MB RAM + 15GB SSD my current Vultr VPS has, and it'd do so at a lower price. Meanwhile it seems also that the VPS configuration I have at Vultr for 5 USD per month is no longer available for new VPSes, instead Vultr now has 512MB RAM + 20GB SSD for 2.50 USD (which is about 2.35 EUR) per month and 1GB RAM + 25GB SSD for 5 USD (about 4.71 EUR) per month. And how much is ArubaCloud charging for 1GB RAM + 20GB SSD? 1 EUR per month, it says! But the ArubaCloud prices are excluding VAT, it says. Does that mean they will bill me, who lives in Norway, slightly more than 1 EUR per month? Either way it'll be cheaper than Vultr.
      - JorgeGT 10y ago
        > But the ArubaCloud prices are excluding VAT, it says. Does that mean they will bill me, who lives in Norway, slightly more than 1 EUR per month? Yes, I pay 1.21€ because general VAT is 21% in Spain. In any case it is almost inexpensive and so far the service is good. Virtualization is through VMware, you can script daily images, etc.
      - sterex 10y ago
        Wow. That's pretty good. But how viable is it for them?
        Veratyr 10y ago
        They only operate in Europe where computing services are generally cheaper and they seem to be running on processors that are a few years old. It's not outdated old but there's a chance the servers are what remain after a more premium product is upgraded. Also there are no performance guarantees, no SAN for the SSDs (no redundancy so much lower cost), limited bandwidth and a lower SLA. I'd guess that since there are no performance guarantees, they're likely overcommitting substantially.
  - j_s 10y ago
    Not quite 1€/month but this was on HN this week: Cloud Hosting Showdown: DO vs. Linode vs. Vultr vs. OVH vs. Scaleway https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13798023 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13798023
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popcorncolonel 10y ago
Hell yes. When I AWS trial expires you know I'm switching to this always free model.
markdog12 10y ago
What if you already did the free trial and spent, say, $10? Do you now get $290 for 10 months?
- ben1040 10y ago
  I'm wondering this myself. I signed up about a year ago. However I only used about three bucks and change over the 90 days because I was looking at using it for a side project and never had time to get far. Can I get the remaining $296.xx for 9 more months?
  - yebyen 10y ago
    If your trial is not over as of the date of this announcement, you get 12 months from your trial start date (mine started less than a month ago, and it now says 352 days remaining). If it was over and you only spent $3.50, and you don't seem to have the Free Trial flex banner message bar at the top of the page anymore, that's a bummer. I'd recommend to see if there's any way for you to contact support and ask them to restart your free trial, while this announcement is still fresh.

unwind 10y ago

Perhaps worth pointing out that the $300 you're referring to is the amount of credit you're given when doing the free trial. As in, you can spend $300 worth of computing resources over 12 months, for free. I totally failed to understand that (I'm not very cloudy) and had to go to their sign-up page to figure out what was up.

JorgeGT 10y ago

> The new non expiring free tier in GCP (aka Always Free Usage Limits) also offers a f1-micro instance However in order to do this you have to enable billing, unlike with the free tier of App Engine. I'm always wary of these things because I fear I'll screw up and run into a huge bill somehow. I currently have a pre-paid 1€/month VPS with $european_competitor to prevent this.

ktta 10y ago
1€/month?! What kind of performance are you getting? Is it usage for a web server? Would you mind sharing the VPS provider?
- JorgeGT 10y ago
  I would say the performance is quite good for the price, I use it as a web dashboard/alerting server with InfluxDB+Grafana and it is quite snappy when browsing the graphs and so on. No problem sharing the provider, ArubaCloud, I just didn't want to sound like an advert.
  - eriknstr 10y ago
    https://www.arubacloud.com/vps/configurator-virtual-private-server.aspx https://www.arubacloud.com/vps/configurator-virtual-private-... Well, well, well, turns out they offer FreeBSD 10. If it upgrades nicely to FreeBSD 11 then I think they've earned themselves a customer and Vultr will have lost one customer due to Vultr no longer giving best bang for the buck. Moving to ArubaCloud would give me 1GB RAM + 20GB SSD instead of the 768MB RAM + 15GB SSD my current Vultr VPS has, and it'd do so at a lower price. Meanwhile it seems also that the VPS configuration I have at Vultr for 5 USD per month is no longer available for new VPSes, instead Vultr now has 512MB RAM + 20GB SSD for 2.50 USD (which is about 2.35 EUR) per month and 1GB RAM + 25GB SSD for 5 USD (about 4.71 EUR) per month. And how much is ArubaCloud charging for 1GB RAM + 20GB SSD? 1 EUR per month, it says! But the ArubaCloud prices are excluding VAT, it says. Does that mean they will bill me, who lives in Norway, slightly more than 1 EUR per month? Either way it'll be cheaper than Vultr.
    - JorgeGT 10y ago
      > But the ArubaCloud prices are excluding VAT, it says. Does that mean they will bill me, who lives in Norway, slightly more than 1 EUR per month? Yes, I pay 1.21€ because general VAT is 21% in Spain. In any case it is almost inexpensive and so far the service is good. Virtualization is through VMware, you can script daily images, etc.
    - sterex 10y ago
      Wow. That's pretty good. But how viable is it for them?
      - Veratyr 10y ago
        They only operate in Europe where computing services are generally cheaper and they seem to be running on processors that are a few years old. It's not outdated old but there's a chance the servers are what remain after a more premium product is upgraded. Also there are no performance guarantees, no SAN for the SSDs (no redundancy so much lower cost), limited bandwidth and a lower SLA. I'd guess that since there are no performance guarantees, they're likely overcommitting substantially.
- j_s 10y ago
  Not quite 1€/month but this was on HN this week: Cloud Hosting Showdown: DO vs. Linode vs. Vultr vs. OVH vs. Scaleway https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13798023 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13798023

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popcorncolonel 10y ago

Hell yes. When I AWS trial expires you know I'm switching to this always free model.

markdog12 10y ago

What if you already did the free trial and spent, say, $10? Do you now get $290 for 10 months?

ben1040 10y ago
I'm wondering this myself. I signed up about a year ago. However I only used about three bucks and change over the 90 days because I was looking at using it for a side project and never had time to get far. Can I get the remaining $296.xx for 9 more months?
- yebyen 10y ago
  If your trial is not over as of the date of this announcement, you get 12 months from your trial start date (mine started less than a month ago, and it now says 352 days remaining). If it was over and you only spent $3.50, and you don't seem to have the Free Trial flex banner message bar at the top of the page anymore, that's a bummer. I'd recommend to see if there's any way for you to contact support and ask them to restart your free trial, while this announcement is still fresh.