Paying for warmed instances kind of defeats the notion of elastic computing, no? I have no problem paying for warm instances, I just don't think that is the solution. At some point you will eventually run out of warmed instances.
I think gholler's idea holds more true to the promise of GAE. On Mar 26, 1:42 pm, "Ikai L (Google)" <ika...@google.com> wrote: > Keeping reserved instances has been added to our public roadmap: > > http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/roadmap.html > > <http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/roadmap.html>As far as spinning up > additional instances, there are probably a few good solutions here. We'll be > best off collecting feedback when we ship reserved instances on which > solution works best. > > > > > > On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 10:38 AM, gholler <georgehol...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thanks for your replies. I think we would want an option to pay to > > keep at least one instance "warm" and ready to go at any time (I don't > > know what makes sense for a fee though). > > And as Guillermo says, that won't help us as new instances are needed > > to scale. There could be a fee for paying accounts to get those > > special startup requests, and I also don't know what makes sense for a > > fee there. It would also need to be able to handle more than 30 > > seconds, ideally it could be a task that keeps gettings called until > > it returns a 200-299 status. The url for the task could be specified > > in the appengine-web.xml. > > > G > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Google App Engine for Java" group. > > To post to this group, send email to > > google-appengine-j...@googlegroups.com. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > google-appengine-java+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<google-appengine-java%2B > > unsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > > . > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-java?hl=en. > > -- > Ikai Lan > Developer Programs Engineer, Google App > Enginehttp://googleappengine.blogspot.com|http://twitter.com/app_engine -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine for Java" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine-j...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine-java+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-java?hl=en.
