The advantages of choosing Google Cloud hosting

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Google Cloud hosting is a cloud computing platform with tools and features aiming to help its users build cloud applications and services that would enrich their business performance. Created specifically with SMBs in mind, it hosts products and services for all sorts of needs and requirements they might have, such as AI and machine learning, API management, data analytics, databases and data storage, internal management tools, networking, operations, as well as security and protection. Google Cloud hosting also gives you the flexibility to choose whether you prefer to operate within a hybrid or a multi-cloud solution. It is considered the third biggest cloud provider right after Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure.

1. How much does Google Cloud hosting cost?

The cost of Google Cloud hosting depends on what you need it for and how you plan on using it. Initially, the platform offers a 90-day-long free trial within their Google Cloud Free Program directed towards first-time users wishing to learn more about the basics of cloud computing. During the trial, you can use up to $300 in free Cloud Billing credits to explore all the products and services included in Google Cloud hosting. You can try programs such as:

 

  • Google Compute Engine that helps you set up virtual machines
  • cloud services – Cloud Build, Cloud Run, Cloud Storage, Cloud Functions, Cloud DNS, and Cloud CDN
  • Google Maps Platform
  • Speech-to-Text transcription
  • App Engine that helps you build your own applications
  • Firestore which acts as a simplified database
  • BigQuery offering analytics
  • Video Intelligence API
  • Vision AI

 

If you decide to choose Google Cloud services after your three-month trial, the platform then offers a pay-as-you-go pricing structure, where you only pay for what you and your business use – with a 10-minute increment making the minimum charge. The price you pay every month varies based on which services and products you use and in which capacity, as well as whether you choose to run it in a standard or a flexible environment. The pay-as-you-go pricing also does not entail any termination charges, thus is a very flexible option.

 

The standard environment offers infrastructure already preconfigured with one of the available runtimes, on which the user can build their own applications easily and effectively. Measured by instances used per hour, the cost of such a solution varies from $0.06 up to $0.36 per hour per instance – depending on which instance class your app is specialized for. The latter, on the other hand, lets developers write their own code and work on it entirely. The use of services within the flexible environment costs $0.009 per GB of memory per hour and $0.063 per vCPU used per hour.

 

What’s more, the Google Cloud Platform also offers AI-powered spending recommendations and features allowing you to control your budget, optimize your spendings, and save money in the long run.

2. Can we host a website on Google Cloud?

Google Cloud generates a wide variety of hosting services that help you establish and run both static and dynamic websites, as customizable as you want them to be. Whether you require establishing the basics or deploying a specific solution, Google Cloud has features that can support you every step of the way.

With Google’s web hosting, you can start with tasks as simple as choosing a domain, a personalized website name, or a business email address. When building your website from scratch, you can choose to either code it yourself or use one of the structures offered by the Google Cloud storage itself – the Google Cloud Marketplace has over 100 web-serving solutions to choose from.

 

Different Google Cloud features serve different web hosting purposes. Through using the Click to Deploy service, you can easily create and publish a WordPress site and run it on the cloud. If your website is static, you can navigate around it within the Firebase Hosting solution. In the case of dynamic websites, however, the Cloud Run feature will help you develop your favorite framework and language, as well as make website maintenance automatic and serverless. The Google Compute Engine provides storage services for your data center and the assets used by your site, as well as offers load-balancing technologies to help you distribute workload across servers used.

3. What are the advantages of migrating to Google Cloud hosting?

3.1. Affordable pricing

As previously mentioned, Google Cloud bills in time increments, rather than making you commit and pay a set subscription up-front, making it a perfect solution if you are only now starting to explore how much your business has to rely on cloud services. Apart from that, Google Cloud hosting offers discounted prices for those who have long-running workloads.

3.2. Boosted performance

Multiple organizations already using Google Cloud hosting have noted fairly decreased load times – some of them even noticing that their page load time went down by as much as 50%.

3.3. Live migration

Being the only cloud service provider offering live migration, Google Cloud hosting puts significant focus on ensuring seamless migration of virtual machines. Thanks to such a feature, Google engineers can address hardware repairs, software updates, and spontaneous patching much faster.

3.4. Strong protection

Google Cloud values security, hence it has many important security measures put in place. It encrypts all data stored on their clouds, whether it’s static or in transit between the server, the customers, and data centers. What’s more, each singular encryption is regularly updated with changed master keys.

3.4. Global network

Google Cloud prides itself in having one of the biggest and the fastest running networks in the world that connect all its users and lets them efficiently exchange data no matter where they are in the world.

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4. Conclusion

Google Cloud hosting is already used in more than 200 countries and expanding across 76 zones and has been chosen by most of the leading companies within the media, entertainment, telecommunications, retail, software, and biotech industries, to name a few. You might want to consider implementing the Google Cloud solution if you wish to make your day-to-day business operations more efficient, secure, well connected, yet do not want to spend a fortune.

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