When comparing Google Cloud Platform vs HostNOC, the Slant community recommends Google Cloud Platform for most people. In the question“What are the best VPS providers?” Google Cloud Platform is ranked 9th while HostNOC is ranked 27th. The most important reason people chose Google Cloud Platform is:
Tensor Processing Units are bare-metal units designed to train your Machine Learning models faster. This is exclusive only to Google Cloud Platform.
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Pros
Pro TPUs
Tensor Processing Units are bare-metal units designed to train your Machine Learning models faster. This is exclusive only to Google Cloud Platform.
Pro Free tier
GCP gives your 365 days of free trial and 300 US$ credit including a Always Free if you upgrade.
Pro Live-migrating VMs
Your VMs will still run even if there is a maintenance work going on to the tenant running your VM - thanks to Google's Live-migration system.
Pro Clear IAM roles
Unlike most Enterprise-grade IAM role systems, GCP has a clearer IAM permissions model, with Azure following.
Pro First-class Kubernetes support
Kubernetes is a project from Google's Borg. GCP is the first Kubernetes-Certified infrastructure.
Pro Secure and efficient to the core
Google datacenters are built with minimal security issues in mind while still reducing carbon footprint, making Google datacenters a much more greener infrastructure than competitors.
Pro Runs on the same infrastructure with Google's Services
Google's datacenters runs your favorite video streaming services and even Google itself. Discord also relies on GCP to handle its workloads.
Pro Email and extra services
free antivirus, email forwarding, and SpamAssassin with every plan
Pro Money-back guarantee
you can get your money back within 15 days if you didn't like their shared or reseller hosting
Pro Affordable prices
every plan is created to give you the most tools and features for the price
Pro Phone and chat support
you get fast and reliable help whenever you need it with HostNoc's 24/7/365 support.
Pro Money-back guarantee
you can get your money back within 15 days if you didn't like their shared or reseller hosting
Cons
Con Expensive
GCP might be cheaper than AWS but it is more expensive than Azure. The main reason for this might be because of the extensive investment done for datacenters being efficient and green and secure.
Con Live Migrating VMs does not apply to GPU-attached VMs
Because this kind of VMs has a direct passthrough to the Processing Unit, this is not available and restart only will be available for the VM attached.
Con Unstable Egress/Ingress
Google Cloud Platform is a bit unstable with its egress and ingress. You may receive subtle blips when maintenance work is being carried on the routing.
Con No yearly payment option
since you can only be billed monthly, there are no discounts if you want to buy a service for multiple years
Con Restrictive disk space
you only get a 100 MB to 2 GB of disk space with shared hosting plans
