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What’s the advantage of GCR over AWS Fargate/ECS? I’ve been running an app on ECS for a couple months now and have been pretty happy with the ease of set-up, load-balancing, auto-scaling etc, though there are still kinks I’m figuring out (SSHing into containers to perform database management, for example, or deploying updated tasks without downtime). Is the main selling point of GCR just its price? I haven’t found EC…
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It's cheap insurance to create an LLC to protect yourself from extreme situations for this kind of thing. Worst case the LLC goes defunct, but you won't be personally liable. https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/limited-liability-pr... EDIT: This comment is based on the assumption that the parent was trying to start a side business. I'm certainly not advocating fraud.
wut? are you suggesting that if there's a cost overrun you just shutdown the LLC? that sounds like a loop that couldn't possibly be true? when you sign TOS you agree to be responsible for service fees. if being an LLC indemnifies against these sorts of charges it would also indemnify you against other legitimate fees? take out a business credit card and cash advance and then close the LLC? free money!
The thing I really want out of these services is the ability to set a payment cap. It’s probably never going to be an issue, but I have anxiety, and I can’t sleep easily knowing that if I fuck up, if someone sinister abuses my application or whatever I may be stuck with a giant bill.
That's not a bug... that's a 'feature'. Interestingly, AWS will not cut you off for non-payment (we had an issue with finance and were 250k in the red by the time we got the first 'Is there any issues over there?' email)
The thing I really want out of these services is the ability to set a payment cap. It’s probably never going to be an issue, but I have anxiety, and I can’t sleep easily knowing that if I fuck up, if someone sinister abuses my application or whatever I may be stuck with a giant bill.
It's cheap insurance to create an LLC to protect yourself from extreme situations for this kind of thing. Worst case the LLC goes defunct, but you won't be personally liable. https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/limited-liability-pr... EDIT: This comment is based on the assumption that the parent was trying to start a side business. I'm certainly not advocating fraud.
Of course, the downside to doing anything with a Google product is that it could be deprecated next year...
Google Cloud has an official deprecation policy. If a product is labeled GA, Google Cloud guarantees that the service will continue running for at least 12 months since the announcement of deprecation.
I've been using Cloud Run for my GPT-2 text generation apps ( https://github.com/minimaxir/gpt-2-cloud-run ) in order to survive random burst, and also for small Twitter bots ( https://github.com/minimaxir/twitter-cloud-run/tree/master/h... ) which can be invoked via Cloud Scheduler to utilize the efficiency benefits. It has been successful in those tasks. The only complaint I have with Cloud Run now (after many usab…
This sounds a lot like aws lambda (except nicer thanks to just running any container). In AWS’s case, you need to pay extra for RDS, redis, and any other persistence.
Deploy you side-projects at more than the scale they'll ever need at home on your hardware for actual nothing.
And I don't have to worry about accidentally unplugging my server or downtime for OS upgrades.
I've been using Cloud Run for my GPT-2 text generation apps ( https://github.com/minimaxir/gpt-2-cloud-run ) in order to survive random burst, and also for small Twitter bots ( https://github.com/minimaxir/twitter-cloud-run/tree/master/h... ) which can be invoked via Cloud Scheduler to utilize the efficiency benefits. It has been successful in those tasks. The only complaint I have with Cloud Run now (after many usab…