Let’s pretend we are in time before cloud computing, and you want to start a company to create social networking. The first thing you do… is buy a server! You would start lugging all the way home from the store and spend hours preparing it with all the correct hardware and software so you can run your company’s web app. Fast forward a few months later… things are looking good for your company site. Users are flooding in. As your organization’s user base increases, you will have to buy and install more and more servers. This process is called scaling. Eventually, your company will open up as a data center, and the next thing you know your company has become international spending billions of dollars all around the world. Sounds like a lot of work right? What if I told you you don’t have to do any of that?

What is Google Server?

Lucky for us, some companies have spent years building some of the world’s most advanced networks called cloud computing. Google has data centers all around the world. These data centers allow many of us to power the Google products you may be familiar with like Search, Gmail, and Google Photos. Google Cloud gives you access to the same technology and infrastructure. Google Cloud has over 100 products and tools to compute, store, and machine learning. Google Web Server (GWS) is proprietary web server software that Google uses for its web infrastructure. GWS is employed exclusively inside Google’s ecosystem for website hosting. The largest known centers are located within the Dales, Oregon; Atlanta, Georgia; Reston, Virginia; Lenoir, North Carolina; and Moncks Corner, South Carolina. In Europe, the most important known centers are in Eemshaven and Groningen within the Netherlands and Mons, Belgium.

Is Google Server for Free?

Yes. Google has now announced a new Always Free tier for its Google Cloud Platform (GCP), where limited use of its services is available for FREE! If you’re eligible, you can use select Google Cloud products like Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, and Big Query free of charge, within specified monthly usage limits. But if you ask me whether hosting on a Google server is free. Then the answer is No, it’s not free but cheap compared to other web hosting services. Initially, once you register you get around AED 1102 in credit which you’ll use for renting any server for about a period of three months. Server Hosting on cloud services like Google, AWS, etc gives you tons of control over your website and you pay just for what you employ, unlike other service providers. There is also a free tier option in Google Cloud which gives you kind of free access to their lowest specs server… you’ll check about it on their website. Overall hosting using Google services is a smaller amount expensive but requires some skills and time.

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