If you want to what about Google Cloud VPS , you will need to know first what Virtual Private Server VPS by clicking the link.
Well you can take VPS from various hosting companies for paying some money, but our lovely google is providing it here for free as cloud hosting program. Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is different from other cloud providing companies in a various sense like google grade security, big data, global network and environmentally friendly.
Want you to know the procedure to get and google cloud pricing? just continue reading.
Google cloud is a service of google started is 2008 which provides a series of modular cloud services like cloud computing, data storage, data analytics and machine learning.
The Google Cloud Free Tier gives you free resources to learn about Google Cloud services by trying them on your own. Whether you’re completely new to the platform and need to learn the basics, or want to experiment with new solutions, the Google Cloud Free Tier is there for you.
The Google Cloud Free Tier has two parts:–
- A 12-month free trial with $300 credit to use with any Google Cloud services.
- Always Free, which provides limited access to many common Google Cloud resources, free of charge.
12 month, $300 free trial
The free trial provides you with credit to pay for resources that you use as you learn about Google Cloud. If you have not previously signed up for the free trial or if you have never been a paying customer of Google Cloud, you are eligible for this. You must provide credit card or bank details to set up a billing account and verify your identity, but you won’t be charged during the free trial.
Limitations:–
- You can’t have more than 8 cores (or virtual CPUs) running at the same time.
- You can’t add GPUs to your VM instances.
- You can’t request a quota increase.
- You can’t create VM instances that are based on Windows Server.
After the free trial Google Cloud services charge you only for resources you use. Each service has its own pricing model, which you can find in the documentation for each individual service.
Always free
The Always Free program provides limited access to many common Google Cloud resources free of charge. Resources are provided at intervals, usually monthly. Always Free resources are not credits; they don’t accumulate or roll over from one interval to the next.
Unlike the free trial, Always Free isn’t a special program. It’s a regular part of your Google Cloud account.
You are eligible for this if you do not have a custom contract or rate card with Google or if you have an upgraded billing account.
This version has more limitations than the $300 free trial version like memory scaling limit, CPU limit etc. and gives you 1 GB of egress per day.
If you want to exceed the always free usage limits you can do it at any time. Any usage above Always Free usage limits is automatically billed at standard rates.
You can check all the details like features, pricing on the google cloud page, here is the link.The screen will look like this.
After clicking the get started button, you will redirected to the page where you will fill the details about you and billing information. Don’t worry you will not charged at the time so you can give card detail. After that you can use either of free trial or free version.