My single question for Greg's FAQ: 1) What is the justification behind the extremely high price for additional instances?
Here is a comparison between a GAE Frontend Python Instance and a small Rackspace Cloud Server: GAE Frontend Python Instance: ------------------------------------------------- Monthly price: $57.60 ($36.00 if reserved) RAM: 128 MB memory cap CPU: 600 MHz limit Capabilities: Limited by the Python sandbox. No native code execution. Single-threaded right now, possible future multi-threading obstructed by the GIL. Rackspace Cloud Server 256 MB: ------------------------------------------------- Monthly price: $10.80 RAM: 256 MB fixed CPU: Guaranteed proportional minimum; Free CPU bursting (I'm using the full power of 4 cores 99% of the time) Capabilities: Full-featured Linux box, can do whatever you want on it. On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 10:14 AM, Kenneth <[email protected]>wrote: > Greg mentioned he was putting together an FAQ so let's help him out! > > If you're going to answer this just put in your question into a single > line, let's not try and answer them here or give opinions, there's plenty of > other threads for that. I do understand that Google doesn't have answers to > some these. > > Here's my list: > > 1) What is the time granularity of the instance pricing? ie if I have an > instance up for 5 minutes, what am I charged, $0.08 / 60*5? > 2) Will I be able to tune the scheduler myself, ie set it to performance or > low cost, Will I be able to limit the min or max number of instances > created (with the obvious impact on user experience)? > 3) Python concurrency, will this require any code changes, do you have any > estimates based on your testing of the number of well behaved requests per > second a single instance will be able to handle for a given framework? > 4) Database charges, when can you give us more details over what Max gave > in the other thread, are you charging for deletes, what do you expect the > ratio to be between the new pricing metric and the Datastore API calls > metric we have today? > 5) Will you be charging differently for instances that use different > amounts of memory, since this seems to be the cost that you're going after > that isn't charged for in the current model. > > Thanks, > Kenneth > > -- > 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.
