You're quoting a blog post from 2008 before there was billing to increase quotas.
On Aug 11, 2:01 am, Nikita <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > We're trying to deploy a large project on app engine, and by this > time, we have an app engine version in internal testing. However, we > have a few concerns: > > First, the information this gentleman expresses:http://aralbalkan.com/1504 > > Here is a quote - "You build an awesome new app on Google App Engine. > You tell your friends. They tell 1,000 of their friends on Twitter who > tell 1,000 of their friends and then, suddenly, you have all these > developers hitting Google App Engine for the first time to see your > app. Paradoxically, by doing that, they trigger the "intelligent > throttling" "feature" in Google App Engine which freaks out and shuts > down your app with an "Over Quota" error -- effectively making the > "Over Quota" message the first impression most of your audience has of > Google App Engine." > > To what extent is this true? As paying customers with a sizable budget > (We're paying over $35,000 a month on our current host, bandwidth > exclusive), this is completely unacceptable. > > I assumed that this might be true only for free accounts, but then one > of our engineers found this > ->http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine/browse_thread/thread/... > > This is a paying customer begging for your mercy to scale. He claims > he gets a Out of Quota error in 1 of 6 requests. This shows he isn't > really out o his daily Quota, but there is something else that's going > wrong. > > It would be great i somebody from Google can comment on the validity o > the above concerns. We don't want to shift our entire business to app > engine and have our customers watch the "Out of Quota - App engine > errors". Frankly, this would be like BSOD of the web 2.0 world. :) -- 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.
