if your application can live within the boundary provided by app engine , it is the cheapest option for almost anyone... i don't think even a dedicated server can perform as well as gae -- without experts.
here goes UGLY/APPROXIMATE comparison i just deed. As per www.livejournal.com , they got almost 300,000 posts per day. which is, approximately 3000 gb of datastorage per year which is equivalent to 5475$ per year. ( increasing every year ). and bandwitdth out (considering 350 million pageviews per month) approx to 498504 $ . while bandwidth in cost around 100,000$ . emails ( which are dead cheap) cost around 5000$. so total cost is ( with salary of 2 well paid python developer ) YEARLY , 1m$. which is nothing. I am sure they are spending much much more than that. well there might be some "oops" and "buts" at that large scale -- but considering we are playing with much powerful system ... I/we are excited. :D --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
