I'm creating a service on appengine that feeds back measurements to the user. The measurements are collected by polling another server every fifteen minutes (the user needs four measurements over the last hour). I son't expect there to be a high load on the server so there won't be many requests coming in for the data, but because the user needs data over the last hour I am forced to poll continuously. This makes me concerned about billing because the new billing system charges per instance hour at a 15 min granularity and this would mean I'd be running 24/7.
*Question* So, I expect a low request rate and am not too concerned about latency etc. How can I optomise this setup for the lowest possible billing? *What I had planned* What I was planning to do was try and get away with the free quota for now by setting max idle instance to 1 and only using the frontend to do both polling and serving (I'm guessing site responsivness will suffer a fair amount) because the frontend has far more free instance hours (28) than the backend (9). Can the even frontend be set up to poll every 15 mins? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine for Java" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-appengine-java/-/ISVXkNqL3ksJ. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine-java@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.
