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By my experience, Google's VPS are faster (it's just comment, so no metrics, sorry) and network is more stable, compared with Linode (same performance per $, wo
by EugeneOZ 12y ago
By my experience, Google's VPS are faster (it's just comment, so no metrics, sorry) and network is more stable, compared with Linode (same performance per $, worse network) and Digital Ocean (worse performance, stable enough network).
But minimal price of support, $150/month, makes it expensive enough for side-projects, and I think side-projects is the main force of adoption.
Again from my experience: I created managed VM (on Google Cloud Platform) to test it, with "autoscale" setup. After testing, I tried to remove it, removed successfully, but then I noticed I'm still paying for it - instance was recreated, as I suppose, because of "autoscale". I will not pay $150 to solve $11 issue, so I just turned off billing in that project, but I don't think it's cool to don't have even minimal support from hosting, so I'm not sure my next side-project will be hosted on GCP.
- wspeirs 12y agoI've had similar experiences with their auto-scaling. It used to be (looks like they've changed it[1]) to get the cheaper prices you had to use auto-scaling. The problem was that it would start a new instance to service one request, then keep it sitting idle for days. Of course, I was still getting charged per-hour for that idle instance. I've also had instances on the Python side where I was using lxml, updated my site, and it stopped working because it couldn't find lxml. I followed their directions[2] and it still wouldn't work. I rolled back my code, still wouldn't work. Without a better log messages than, "Cannot find library", I was "forced" to move to Digital Ocean and run it all myself. Finally, their Cloud Monitoring[3] falls down all the time. I realize it's beta, but I get an email about once-a-week because of a failure. I'm a fan of Google in just about every other area, but they're really so far behind Amazon it's sad... [1] https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/java/modules/#Java_Instance_scaling_and_class https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/java/modules/#Java_I... [2] https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/python/tools/libraries27 https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/python/tools/librari... [3] https://cloud.google.com/monitoring/ https://cloud.google.com/monitoring/
- crb 12y agoBilling support is available to all customers for free: https://support.google.com/cloud/answer/3420056?hl=en&ref_topic=3473162 https://support.google.com/cloud/answer/3420056?hl=en&ref_to...
- EugeneOZ 12y agoThanks, couldn't find it :)