On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 6:55 AM, Vinuth Madinur <[email protected]>wrote:
> @Greg, Can you provide more clarity on this Instance Hours thing? > > App engine was attractive because the pricing was for actual CPU consumed > as against paying for idle time. And the way GAE forces everything like > deferred tasks, queues, cron jobs, etc., into new web requests made sense > only as long as it was CPU based billing. Imagine someone doing things this > way on instance based platforms like EC2. > Hi Vinuth, while it isn't CPU based, it is still paying for what you use, we spin up and down instances as needed to serve traffic, these instances incorporate CPU and Memory used. Just to re-iterate from another response I gave on this thread: Instance hours are billed for the instances being up for an app. This is one of the reasons that we are changing our scheduler, to ensure we aren't creating instances that aren't needed and that we are taking down instances once they are no longer needed. > Can someone please clarify how the Instance based billing will impact apps > based on single threaded python runtime? > I'm not quite sure how to answer the question, if you are asking what the cost impact will be, once we have comparative bills available you'll be able to see how much it will cost. > $9 upfront payment also sounds absurd, just to have ability to exceed free > quota. Can't that be made as SLA + SSL + whatever_extra_some_apps_want fees > for those who want it? > > I can understand reducing free quota limits and maybe increasing prices to > achieve your 2x-4x increases. It's hard to accept tiered pricing and > instance hour based pricing. > Thanks for the feedback on this, Greg > > > Thanks, > Vinuth. > > > > On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 6:09 PM, Vanni.T <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Lol, de Witte... an even better way is to observe almost all users >> disabling billing for their applications in the next months. And then stop >> uploading new apps... and then disabling and finally deleting them. >> >> Be fast changing your mind, Google. B E F A S T. >> >> Vanni >> >> -- >> 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. > -- 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.
