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Cloud Functions isn't 1:1 IIRC, once a Function is booted it keeps serving more requests once warm.
No, the concurrency of GCF is always 1. If the latency of your code handling request is 1s, to handle 100 requests per second you'll need to have 100 instances running.
Link for reference: https://cloud.google.com/functions/docs/max-instances
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'd much rather overpay $20-50/month I don't think the alternatives are nearly that expensive. Vultr, DigitalOcean and others have virtual private servers for only $5 per month. They're small instances but totally fine for side-projects. I run a cheap $5/month VPS and it was able to withstand my project making the HN front page without issues. I don't use Google cloud hosting for the same reasons as you, I don't wa…
In our modern cloud age, I think we've forgotten how much a single box can actually handle (and how few of us actually _need_ to "scale" from day one). Hacker News front page isn't really that much traffic in the grand scheme of things. My $5 DO instance handled it without a sweat. Hell, even "real" projects can still work under this approach. A $20/mo DO box, sqlite, and a few shell scripts can get you shockingly far ^_^
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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!
Note that this is a vague, general answer and most certainly does NOT constitute legal advice.
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 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…
Agreed. I often second guess my usage of various Google apps and services since I don't want to trigger some process that I would have no way of ever knowing.
The recent case of someone getting banned from using Apple Pay comes to mind (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20841586)
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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.
Absolutely don't do a chargeback. Try to settle it with the package carrier. Google's algorithm can flag a chargeback as suspicious, leading you to be locked out.
(GOOG's market cap as I write this is $985B...)
As a noob I have a question as to what advantages I have using docker compared to just a service like Heroku where I just push the application to them... and I don't bother with docker? To me with my limited understanding this seems like just another step. Now granted when it comes to work, I'm using docker with specifics that I know why I would want / can specify with docker ... but for personal projects this ever c…
You can use containers on Heroku, by the way.
I wont use this for the simple reason that I bought into the Google Appengine stack in the past and it really bit me for several reasons: They force-upgraded the java version. The problem was their their own libraries didn’t work with the new version and we had to rewrite a ton of code. It ended up being insanely expensive at scale. We were totally locked-in to their system and the way it did things. This would be fi…
You're outlining all the reasons why Cloud Run is the successor to App Engine. App Engine was the very first PaaS, came out before Docker, and did things very uniquely in order to try to only allow scalable apps. App Engine standard has to explicitly create special environments for each of their runtimes, and that's slow and expensive. Services like Datastore and Memcache were tightly coupled. Cloud Run fixes all tha…
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'd much rather overpay $20-50/month I don't think the alternatives are nearly that expensive. Vultr, DigitalOcean and others have virtual private servers for only $5 per month. They're small instances but totally fine for side-projects. I run a cheap $5/month VPS and it was able to withstand my project making the HN front page without issues. I don't use Google cloud hosting for the same reasons as you, I don't wa…
- Hobby server, at $7/month
- Database, there are many but add another $5-$15/month
- Redis, either $0/month or $15/month, depending on the needs
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…
Why not just make another Google Account just for this project? It’s what I do since year, basically for every customer I work, I create a new account and even share the credentials with the customer (if he wants it).
Same with Amazon accounts and AWS bills for that matter.
I understand the concern though... and using separate accounts is probably best practice.
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Absolutely don't do a chargeback. Try to settle it with the package carrier. Google's algorithm can flag a chargeback as suspicious, leading you to be locked out.
This is a delightfully horrifying response... "Don't poke the trillion dollar bear, he might bite you and lock you out of your account!" (GOOG's market cap as I write this is $985B...)