I don't mind $9 to help reduce the number of spam farms using GAE to mine api calls and send email... $9 = cost of a dream host account I figure even as a sandbox $9 is cheap.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sylvain Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2011 3:25 PM To: Google App Engine Subject: [google-appengine] Re: Is App Engine suddenly becoming more expensive??? For very small app $9/month is a big jump. Example : for one of my apps, I pay $1/month and with the new price $10/month = +900% GAE was : "pay for what you use", it is no more the case... On May 10, 7:29 pm, Ugorji <[email protected]> wrote: > Did App Engine suddenly start costing a minimum of $45 per month? > > http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2011/05/year-ahead-for-google-app... > > Summary: pay-as-you-go is 8 cents per hour an instance is running, or > 5 cents per hour if you pre-reserve. This translates to $58 per month > for pay-as-you-go or $36 per month for pre-reserved. Add the > $9/app/month fee for any serious apps with billing enabled (required > for using blobstore, etc), and it translates to $45 (if pre-reserved) > or $67 (pay-as-you-go). And this is for an app with only one instance always running. > > Compared to what we've been used to, this seems like a major increase > in price. Maybe someone can shed some light on this - I hope it's not > as bad as it looks to me. > > (P.S. Pricing for High Replication Datastore is a welcome change - > thanks Google. You've also made it easier to pick HRD, as there'd no > pricing advantage for M/S anymore). -- 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 at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
