I am wondering does Google Cloud backup there servers. For example has anyone ever lost there data, or maybe is there any off chance that this can happen? Or has Google has a strategy to prevent this. Or is it up to us to make backups?
Also I have another question. I have a site with 1TB of downloadable files. I'm wondering on the cost each month and the bandwidth prices?
Thanks
From the Storage Classes documentation page:
All storage classes support:
Redundant storage. Cloud Storage is designed for 99.999999999% durability.
As for pricing, you can plug your numbers into the Google Cloud Platform Pricing Calculator or look directly at the Google Cloud Storage Pricing page.
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Google mentions an average durability of 99.999999999% for Nearline and Coldline archival solutions. It does not mention about the geo-redundantly of the data. Is the data redundantly stored at multiple facilities? If yes, is the redundancy greater or less than the 'Regional' or 'Multi-Regional' class? Sorry, if this information is mentioned somewhere in the documentation.
If you look on the Storage Classes page, it says:
All storage classes support:
Redundant storage. Cloud Storage is designed for 99.999999999% durability.
Hello all I am doing a start up and for cloud server I am using google cloud platform to launch my android app. Now I was reading through google's docs, but I can't figure out how I am going to put my scripts on google cloud because I came across two things Cloud Storage and other one was Compute engine's Persistent disks. I also google this question and it leads me here https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/faq#pdgcs. I read it, but now I am more confused because initially I thought that when I am going to create my instance then there there will be a memory selection and also disk selection field so I thought all of my data which are my NOSQL data and both my scripts are going to be inside my Compute Engine disk section, but as I read about this cloud storage section so now I am wondering why even they have these two types of storage wouldn't it be a lot easier to put storage section only at one place?
Please if anyone know about this please answer also if you think this question is very less detailed then sorry I am a newbie in cloud server hosting so I don't know anything about this, it will be really appreciatable if you can just enlighten me here?
The question is whether you need global read/write access to this data or whether each Compute Engine instance will read/write its own data individually.
If you need global access, Cloud Storage is the solution. If only local access is needed, go with Persistent disks as it has lower latency.
From what you described, it looks to me that you probably want to go with Persistent disks.
i have dedicated server in canada and would like to use google-cloud-storage as offsite backup.
so i will be pushing/uploading data from canada to google-cloud-storage located in us-east1.
will there be any pricing difference if i create a bucket in us-central1 instead of us-east1 ?
or the pricing is same for any location ?
i ask this becuase i have been using amazon services and their pricing totally depends on the location of amazon server/services .
No. Google Cloud Storage charges the same amount for storing data regardless of the location it's stored, and there is no charge for uploading data into Google Cloud Storage.
There are some pricing differences for serving data based on location, but for serving data from Google to outside of Google, us-centra1 and us-east1 are effectively equivalent in this regard.
The pricing details for Google Cloud Storage are published here: https://cloud.google.com/storage/pricing
I am looking for a solution similar to Amazon S3 or Azure Blob Storage that can be hosted internally instead of remotely. I don't necessarily need to scale out, but I'd like to create a central location where my growing stable of apps can take advantage of file storage. I would also like to formalize file access. Does anybody know of anything like the two services I mentioned above?
I could write this myself, but if something exists then I'd rather now reinvent the wheel, unless that weel has corners :)
The only real alternative to services like S3 and Azure blobs I've seen is Swift, though if you don't plan to scale out this may be overkill for your specific scenario.
The OpenStack Object Store project, known as Swift, offers cloud storage software so that you can store and retrieve lots of data in virtual containers. It's based on the Cloud Files offering from Rackspace.
The OpenStack Object Storage API is implemented as a set of ReSTful (Representational State Transfer) web services. All authentication and container/object operations can be performed with standard HTTP calls
http://docs.openstack.org/developer/swift/
I am looking for an API that performs functionality roughly analogous to Rackspace Cloud Files / OpenStack Swift, Microsoft Azure Blob Storage, or Amazon S3 that can be run on a Windows Server.
I am not speaking of all the add-ons including replication, etc, but an API that enables a similar RESTful API for the storage/serving (including Anonymous). Some examples of functionality I like, and would be missing if I rolled my own right now, are:
Rackspace's Large Files support.
Amazon S3's Root Document support.
Microsoft Azure BLOB storage Page Blobs and Authentication.
Options like MongoDB's GridFS are getting close, but wouldn't quite cut it. RavenDB's "Attachments" functionality is pretty close, I understand it only supports up to 2Gb via the ESENT storage engine
Just to clarify, I'm not exactly sure what form this would take. I'm not looking for a pre-built product (which I don't see exists), but perhaps a stub of a project, an open source project planning to provide this functionality, people who might have developed their own similar solution in C#, etc.
We have RavenFS that handles that scenario, I think.
It is a commercial offering, though.