>From what I have read they definately plan to make app engine for business available for user facing sites, they simply have not determined the pricing for that model yet.
On Oct 20, 2:45 pm, Robert Kluin <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey David, > You can use App Engine for building a generic internet facing site. > App Engine for Business seems to be targeting a different market > segment, businesses running intranet type apps. > > Robert > > On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 15:34, David Parks <[email protected]> wrote: > > Oh interesting. Maybe I'm mis-understanding google's intention here. I had > > hoped to use app-engine to host a generic web-facing site. It seems like a > > brilliant platform for that. But perhaps this is not a primary use case > > considered by google? Or maybe that's what they mean by "users outside your > > org would be billed differently", perhaps the whole concept is still in its > > infancy. > > > But even so, I would be surprised, because a 100 person intranet site > > shouldn’t cost a small company $800 to host (surely a typical $40-$100 VPS > > on any old hosting provider would be more than sufficient). > > > Oh well, I guess the marketing execs have some work to do. :) > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [email protected] > > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Geoffrey Spear > > Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2010 1:22 AM > > To: Google App Engine > > Subject: [google-appengine] Re: Google apps engine for Business pricing Q > > > My understanding that the the App Engine for Business offering you're > > describing is intended for intranet applications, and that the user count > > would be the number of users in your Google Apps domain. > > There's no "free quota" because the applications aren't free in the first > > place. As I understand it there's no quota system at all because the > > business model is different than the "pay for what you use" model in normal > > App Engine. (Although it may be reasonable to think you'd still have the > > limits of the non-billable quotas, maybe at different levels, to prevent, > > say, a 1-person "organization" from running some massive cluster computing > > application in the cloud for super-cheap...) > > > Applications intended to be used by users outside your organization would be > > billed differently. > > > On Oct 20, 12:33 pm, "David Parks" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I'm looking at Google apps engine for Businesses, and in the pricing > >> it > >> says: > > >> Each application costs $8 per user, up to a maximum of $1000, per month. > > >> Can someone explain to me what a "user" is in this context? I can't > >> find any explanation. Is this just the user that creates the app on > >> appengine.google.com? Meaning $8 allows you to create up to 10 apps + > >> billable usage over the free quota? Or is there no free quota on the > >> business edition? > > > -- > > 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. > > > -- > > 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 > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > > -- 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.
