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Ive used gcp and ive been billed like 10% of minimal wage for setting GCPs demo with like 7 very simple microservices (i dont remember exactly) 4 times and every of them was running like 5 minutes after being deployed and then project was killed

Shit is expensive as hell

For the same money I could rent some weak linux box for a year

Or something decent for a month

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https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/microservices-demo

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what you show there should cost like 300/month to run. Its very transparent pricing, its just bad that the tutorial doesn't mention that.

You do realize what you setup in that tutorial right? A kubernetes cluster with 11 full scale microservices that are dimensioned so they can serve the average medium size business. For only a hobby this is huuuuuuugely overdimensioned.

If you were to do the same on azure, it would cost more. If you are comparing it to a cheap linux box, what the hell are you using kubernetes clusters for then?

> You do realize what you setup in that tutorial right?

Sure, buyer beware but is it reasonable that a clearly marked demo project is set up with services to that level of resourcing?

Nobody is going to take a demo like that and start running a business off it tomorrow.

>what you show there should cost like 300/month to run

Ive ran it for 4 times miltiplied by 5minutes + time needed for it to wake up

All im saying is that it is expensive for such a small usage

I have to wonder what you were doing, I've been continuously hosting my own projects there for years and with the free tier they cost pennies per month to run.

Ive linked the GCPs demo repo that Ive been messing with

"and with the free tier they cost pennies per month"

Is it free or not?

You pay for the resources you use above the free tier limits. My bill for this month so far is 30 cents because I deployed frequently and my docker artifact storage size (with several years worth of deployments) dipped above the limit. Then I added a periodic job to clear out unused docker images older than one year and I'm running for free again.

Dude, you blindly ran some random code on a metered cloud service.

If somebody gives you keys to a Ferrari, don't blame the manufacturer when you drive it off a cliff at 120 miles/hour...

Its not random code, it is GCPs demo code. And im just saying that it is expensive for such a small usage

Ferrari analogy would be something like being billed 100usd for 1min ride

This is one of the single most comprehensively intense demo projects I've ever seen. I did a multi day AWS Data Lab for work once and it wasn't this comprehensive.

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