When comparing Google Compute Engine vs F(x) Data Cloud, the Slant community recommends F(x) Data Cloud for most people. In the question“What are the best cloud hosting services for large businesses?” F(x) Data Cloud is ranked 1st while Google Compute Engine is ranked 9th. The most important reason people chose F(x) Data Cloud is:
If you wanna host your database on the cloud server, you can have both the option as Database as a Service (Pre-installed and managed database) or Infrastructure as a Service (If you want to have root access and manually want to install the database).
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Pros
Pro Strong support for Google
Any organization built on Google Apps will love the easy authentication
Pro Fast DNS
Pro Option for hosting the database service on the cloud server.
If you wanna host your database on the cloud server, you can have both the option as Database as a Service (Pre-installed and managed database) or Infrastructure as a Service (If you want to have root access and manually want to install the database).
Pro High uptime
All the cloud services are with 99.95% uptime.
Pro Cost-friendly
F(x) Data Cloud provides public cloud server at a cheap price. The basic plan starts at $1.99/month.
Pro Great Support
Typically answers in minute.
Pro Provides high configurations
They provide 32 vCPU, 128 GB RAM, 2000 GB SSD, 9 TB network. For large businesses, high configurations are required.
Cons
Con Windows support is lacking
Windows support at the moment is barebones. No SQL Server, no AD etc etc.
Con SSH-Key
Its difficult to generate SSH key for Google Cloud
Con No GPU provided
GPU is not provided.