<div dir="auto">That sounds like you are running a f1.micro on the free tier to me.<div dir="auto">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.</div><div dir="auto">For context, my job is currently as a senior cloud engineer in GCP.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jan 6, 2024, 16:25 Mike Carden via linux-aus <<a href="mailto:linux-aus@lists.linux.org.au">linux-aus@lists.linux.org.au</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, 6 Jan 2024 at 14:59, Russell Coker via linux-aus <<a href="mailto:linux-aus@lists.linux.org.au" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">linux-aus@lists.linux.org.au</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">What are good options for cheap VMs in Australia? <br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>The numbers being shared here seem... a bit large.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>The cost? It has fluctuated between 13 and 20 Australian Cents per month. Last month it was $0.13</div><div><br></div><div>--</div><div>MC</div><div><br></div><div> </div></div></div>
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