Deploy your side-projects at scale for basically nothing – Google Cloud Run

Post by europa » Sun, Jan 12, 2020, 10:12 PM UTC

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deanmoriarty wrote: post #166

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I had the same thoughts: even if I like Google Cloud a lot (I use it extensively at work), I don’t feel it’s safe for me to use it at home, since I don’t want to risk having my entire google account locked due to “suspicious activity”, whatever that might mean. In fact, I recently shut down a personal App Engine service I had been using for myself for a few years just because of this paranoia. The service was not doi…

I ordered a phone from Google that's been lost in delivery. I have Gmail/documents/photos/music... Should I do a charge-back? Sue them in small claims court? I should never have done business with them.

Post by znpy » Sun, Jan 12, 2020, 10:20 PM UTC

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I have used it for work-related reasons and indeed the service is quite nice. But I don't use Google Cloud Run for personal projects for two reasons: - No way of limiting the expenses AFAIK. I don't want the possibility of having a huge bill on my name that I cannot pay. This unfortunately applies to other clouds. - The risk of being locked out. For many, many reasons (including the above), you can get locked out of…

> I cannot have a $100k bill to pay, it'd destroy everything I have. Welcome to US healthcare. Happens daily! :)

Post by mcintyre1994 » Sun, Jan 12, 2020, 10:20 PM UTC

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I’ve heard about Google correlating these accounts (through billing methods, contact methods, access patterns) and banning them together when one infringes on something. I’m not sure it’s the protection you think it is.

Yes they do. If you want to bypass these rules, just make a ton of accounts and wait for a couple months and the use those accounts with whatever credit card you have (keep in mind that you should get another card from your bank because google can tell when your card is a generated one like privacy.com)

Post by Mirioron » Sun, Jan 12, 2020, 10:21 PM UTC

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These stories are everywhere. A couple months ago, it hit an associate of mine pretty hard, he moved a small python monitoring and statistics application off a laptop in the office to AWS. A couple weeks later he came back and discovered that it had burned up a few thousand $'s in storage and transfer fees for what normally was a couple hundred MBs of data a day being passed around and a some database updates. Since…

Not sure what happened to your associate but this sounds way, way out there. I run a fairly resource intensive SaaS on AWS (lots of background jobs generating data) and we barely go over $600 a month. People should not be scared of by these anecdotes, however true they may be. It’s perfectly possible to run a very cost effective business on AWS.

Post by minimaxir » Sun, Jan 12, 2020, 10:33 PM UTC

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"2 requests/minute on average to your site" is a bad assumption for a relatively unpopular side project. More importantly, with those hypothetical numbers, you'd stay well within the free tier for compute.

A request is not a visit. Each visit might have a up to a hundred requests (or even more when showing live data and caching a PWA on first visit for example). That would translate to one user per hour or two which even unpopular side projects can get. But you're right about the free tier of course.