<div dir="ltr">I enjoyed using Google Compute Engine (GCE) to manage a team of VMs and then simply stop doing that.<div><br></div><div>I attended a talk about how Google Cloud services work, and I was really disappointed when the talk was about the customer experience and not about how Google makes stuff work. But anyway, I got some free credits for using GCE. That was enough to make me use it.</div><div><br></div><div>But after the experience, I think that the rates are low enough and my experience positive enough that I'd consider it for other stuff.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 8:33 AM, Leam Hall <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:leamhall@gmail.com" target="_blank">leamhall@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I've been working on changing my philosophy for a while now, and it's rough. Moving from "must hand do everything" to learning Puppet. Accepting that a perfectly tuned platform tomorrow is less useful than a functional one today.<br>
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My next hurdle is moving personal development platforms off my personal hardware. It's been nice to have stuff running on my own laptop but at the same time the hardware is old, the OS is old (but duplicates work OS), and I'm getting old. I don't want to have to rebuild everything when the disk takes a dive.<br>
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Yeah, I have backups. But everything slows to a crawl when I have to restore to get everything done, and then to find the one bit I forgot to backup.<br>
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Any good recommendations for small instance cloud providers? I know AWS and Rackspace but have not paid attention to others yet. My goal is to spin up servers, learn Puppet and stuff, and spin them down. Only paying for uptime. RAM and disk needs are pretty minimal. However, even an AWS micro instance is ~$60/month if you forget that you have it and forget that it's on...<br>
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So, I could use a place to play that's not on my old hardware. Thoughts?<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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