Re: Cheap VMs in Australia

Ian Brown via linux-aus <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.australia
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That sounds like you are running a f1.micro on the free tier to me.
These are great for small workloads such as a git repo. But anything more
CPU intensive and you will see the steal values in top go through the roof
as they are only allocated 1/4 of a single CPU core.
For context, my job is currently as a senior cloud engineer in GCP.

On Sat, Jan 6, 2024, 16:25 Mike Carden via linux-aus <
[email protected]> wrote:

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>
> On Sat, 6 Jan 2024 at 14:59, Russell Coker via linux-aus <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> What are good options for cheap VMs in Australia?
>>
>
> The numbers being shared here seem... a bit large.
>
> Okay, my GCP VM is in the USA, but I started it in about 2015 and it has
> had 100% uptime. It's a small one with 1GB of RAM and 10GB of disk, but it
> has served me well as an encrypted git repo for my password store and on
> occasion as a Quassel IRC server.
>
> The cost? It has fluctuated between 13 and 20 Australian Cents per month.
> Last month it was $0.13
>
> --
> MC
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