Why repl.it uses Google Cloud Platform?
- What do you mean pay for their own? It's easier to use something others have made than make your own. I'm sure you know this logic.
- Google cloud platform is cheap, it scales very easily, and that is why it is one of the most popular computing engines out there.
Please, do some thinking first: are they really free? Their quota limits are quite restricting in the computing world.
@Coder100 "What do you mean pay for their own?" I mean that if repl.it made their own servers instead of Google Cloud Platform to host their servers to the programmers with free plan or hacker plan on their accounts.
@ZenEmulator And i somehow got hacker plan and i don't even know how. 🤔
github developer pack? @ZenEmulator
oftentimes maintaining a server is more expensive than using an online server. @ZenEmulator
@Coder100 Uhhhhhhh....... i didn't apply for github student developer pack, so......
@LeganNogan if it was free or cheap to make your own server, all of us would be doing it. It costs a bunch of money for hardware etc, so using a service of a company like Google for whom that setup money is negligible ends up being cheaper for everyone
I found on Google Cloud Platform page talking about repl.it while I'm investigating the suspicious case about repl.it using Google Cloud Platform. https://cloud.google.com/customers/repl-it#:~:text=Repl.it%20uses%20Google%20Container,and%20build%20and%20deploy%20pipelines.&text=The%20REPL%20functionality%20is%20coded,by%20developers%20and%20classroom%20coders.
“Why use GCP instead of their own?” Simple. Infrastructure (computers, data centers, etc) cost lots of money to set up. With the amount of traffic/usage on replit, starting a private data center would cost quite a bit and end up hurting the end user. GCP makes it easy and economical to set up things without having to worry about the physical infrastructure.