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The Google Compute Engine is really easy to use, and the browser console makes it easy to treat it like a Linode or Digital Ocean type host, if that's all you w

The Google Compute Engine is really easy to use, and the browser console makes it easy to treat it like a Linode or Digital Ocean type host, if that's all you want. I recently transitioned off of Linode (after about a decade?!) to Google. Largely, this was because I needed a lot more disk space to mirror some large public databases, and it was significantly cheaper to do this with Google than it would have been with Linode. This is because Linode couples the disk space with both the RAM and the number of processors. I needed more disk, and would have liked more RAM, but had no use for more processors. With this announcement, Google has now decoupled the RAM from the number of processors, which is a development I'll be taking advantage of.

boulos 9y ago
Thanks! If there's a public dataset that you're mirroring, maybe we should be hosting it for everyone under our public datasets program (feel free to ping me with your details). Sadly, extended memory does not mean you can arbitrarily scale RAM versus cores for free. The memory above a certain ratio per vcpu is charged at a higher marginal rate. The focus of the product is for people that might only want more RAM, but if they add cpus something bad will happen (e.g., they don't have enough licenses for their software, or their code will literally crash). We'll try to update the docs to be clearer about this. Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud.
- lgats 9y ago
  Is the price difference so much so that you would want to avoid scaling down CPUs or RAM even if you're not using the resources?
bogomipz 9y ago
>"The Google Compute Engine is really easy to use, and the browser console makes it easy to treat it like a Linode or Digital Ocean type host, if that's all you want." I agree, the browser console is really fantastic. Does anyone know how this is implemented?
- drampelt 9y ago
  From what I can tell, looks like it's built with Angular 1.
- Goopplesoft 9y ago
  https://github.com/yudai/gotty https://github.com/yudai/gotty is a good place to start figuring out how they're implemented (tty streaming server + termjs type thing).
aorth 9y ago
I'm a long-time Linode customer as well, and over the years I've been scaling my services up but the pricing model is quite restrictive! I also need more disk space, but not necessarily RAM and CPU... For what it's worth Linode has said (in Feb, 2017) that they will be announcing block storage in the coming months. https://blog.linode.com/2017/02/14/high-memory-instances-and-5-linodes/ https://blog.linode.com/2017/02/14/high-memory-instances-and...
SXX 9y ago
I never used GCE before. Is there built-in spending limits already? Is there easy way to create said $10 instance that will only ever cost me $10? After all it's one of the main reasons why I prefer Digital Ocean for small projects.
- matt4077 9y ago
  Yes–you can create budgets, either as absolute amounts or based on last month's spending. You can also set percentages at which you're notified by email.

boulos 9y ago

Thanks! If there's a public dataset that you're mirroring, maybe we should be hosting it for everyone under our public datasets program (feel free to ping me with your details). Sadly, extended memory does not mean you can arbitrarily scale RAM versus cores for free. The memory above a certain ratio per vcpu is charged at a higher marginal rate. The focus of the product is for people that might only want more RAM, but if they add cpus something bad will happen (e.g., they don't have enough licenses for their software, or their code will literally crash). We'll try to update the docs to be clearer about this. Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud.

lgats 9y ago
Is the price difference so much so that you would want to avoid scaling down CPUs or RAM even if you're not using the resources?

bogomipz 9y ago

>"The Google Compute Engine is really easy to use, and the browser console makes it easy to treat it like a Linode or Digital Ocean type host, if that's all you want." I agree, the browser console is really fantastic. Does anyone know how this is implemented?

drampelt 9y ago
From what I can tell, looks like it's built with Angular 1.
Goopplesoft 9y ago
https://github.com/yudai/gotty https://github.com/yudai/gotty is a good place to start figuring out how they're implemented (tty streaming server + termjs type thing).

aorth 9y ago

I'm a long-time Linode customer as well, and over the years I've been scaling my services up but the pricing model is quite restrictive! I also need more disk space, but not necessarily RAM and CPU... For what it's worth Linode has said (in Feb, 2017) that they will be announcing block storage in the coming months. https://blog.linode.com/2017/02/14/high-memory-instances-and-5-linodes/ https://blog.linode.com/2017/02/14/high-memory-instances-and...

SXX 9y ago

I never used GCE before. Is there built-in spending limits already? Is there easy way to create said $10 instance that will only ever cost me $10? After all it's one of the main reasons why I prefer Digital Ocean for small projects.

matt4077 9y ago
Yes–you can create budgets, either as absolute amounts or based on last month's spending. You can also set percentages at which you're notified by email.