I have my business website running as a vm-instance in compute engine of GCP. I get charged over 20 dollars a month. Please, any idea on what I can do to reduce the monthly cost of the vm-instance?
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I’m not a specialist in GCP, but maybe this could help you out.
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Thank you Jan-Carlos.
The link was really helpful. I was able the see the estimated price of Wordpress hosting on GCP.
It is as I feared, I am being billed about double the estimated price as show in the link you shared.
Please see screen shots below. I am in urgent need to reducing my monthly billing. It’s basically double.
Here’s a screen shot of pricing as said by google
This second screenshot of my monthly billing. Today is 4th July and you can see how high it is already…
Please I need help! 
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Maybe this helps too: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/signing-up-committed-use-discounts
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You can try to check the cost table before do anything.
GCP => Billing => Your billing => Cost table
You may be surprised.
Best, Alex.
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Hi @Alex_Ivanov Thanks. I looked at the cost table, That’s a screenshot below. It shows me over 20 dollars. Please what does this mean?
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Hi @Alex_Ivanov Thanks. I looked at the cost table, That’s a screenshot below. It shows me over 20 dollars. Please what does this mean?
Then I have a question also.
Does the machine type, SSD OR standard persistent disc, have an effect on the price? If yes what’s the difference in price? My VM machine type is SSD
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Hmm… I don’t see the service description field.
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100% of the cost it is in the compute engine service.
Try to click in this button to see better infos about compute engine costs:
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The machine type [1] and disk configuration [2] do affect billing. In the pricing screenshot that you shared earlier, the cost that’s shown is for 1 shared vCPU, 2 GB memory, and a 10GB standard persistent disk.
While launching the VM from marketplace or later after the VM was created, did you change the VM to a larger machine type? If yes, you can size it down [3] to the required configuration. Also, if your website doesn’t need to run 24/7, you can consider stopping [4] the VM during the days/hours when you don’t expect traffic to the website. Also, review the options to optimize the cost of your persistent disks [5].
[1] https://cloud.google.com/compute/vm-instance-pricing
[2] https://cloud.google.com/compute/disks-image-pricing#disk
[5] https://cloud.google.com/architecture/framework/cost-optimization/storage#pd
I hope this helps.
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