I don't know that I have ever whined at an organization like Google for trying to make money.
That's changing with this message. By my calculations, it could cost me $1000 over the next year to host my app that I had anticipated being hosted under the quotas. It may cost me nothing.... right now our usage is just under the daily CPU limits. If the traffic doesn't grow, no problem But whose goal is it for an app not to get more usage? My only real gripe is that App Engine caused me to invest a lot of effort in shoe-horning my app into the "Google Way". I did that with the understanding that the trade-off was a certain amount of free hosting. Was that a promise? Of course not. Is Google under any obligation to meet my expectation? No. However, as I attempt to further optimize the application in an effort to not exceed limits, the future of the application is now in question. This is not a profit deal. I gave away my time in an effort to help an organization. Had I known this change was coming, I probably would have chosen a different solution. Because of the "vendor lock-in" of App Engine, the end result of all this may be simply turning the app off and letting the organization do without. (or find someone else to help them out.) Better that than hit daily free limits or find money out of someone's pocket. Look $1000/year is not a big deal for world-class hosting. I get it. I also understand that the free quotas are only there to get people "hooked" such as it were. I guess I wish had listened to those who said, "Don't do App Engine. They'll lock you in and change the deal. It's not portable enough." Shame on me, I guess. And before people chime in with all the, "You could always move it to...", or "If you had just written it this way... " or "It's a business, of course they're trying to get you to go over the limits.." please.... don't. This is just a note to let the people at Google know there is a very real cost to changing the deal on people. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
