10 engineers on Hacker News describe using Google Compute Engine first-hand: 6 endorse it, 2 regret it, 1 are mixed.
“we moved it to proper vms. Very easy to do in Google Cloud.”
endorse · production · jillesvangurp · 2022-09-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we use 3x n1-std2 with sustained use discount but we basically do not use any power over night... it's sad that it's not a cost saving for us.”
regret · production · merb · 2019-12-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we moved off of GCE last spring... we can ensure what happened to us then doesn't happen again.”
regret · production · erichocean · 2016-10-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“At work we moved to GCE at the beginning of this year... So far have been very happy with it.”
endorse · production · 1 yr · jhgg · 2016-02-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“In some areas of functionality GCE and Azure I found to work much more easily and smoothly than Amazon.”
endorse · production · hoodoof · 2015-11-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Already we've migrated our growing website to it, and as soon as they fix some network performance issues”
endorse · production · KirinDave · 2015-11-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Everything is faster on GCE. From the not-terrible portal, to VM start times, to the machines themselves and storage.”
endorse · production · MichaelGG · 2015-07-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We strictly use them for compute, and run all of our own class of machine.”
mixed · production · tobz · 2015-01-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Managing google VMs are much more easier. For example, migrating a gcloud VM would take only a few seconds even across data centers.”
endorse · production · nachivpn · 2014-12-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we chose gluster, as gce-pd doesn't support multiple writers.”
neutral · production · tzaman · 2016-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?