You cannot just compare GAE with Rackspace simply because GAE is unmanaged, we don't do a thing.
Though I would still maintain that the prices are indeed high. On 12 May 2011 21:46, Peter Petrov <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > -- -Nischal +91-9920240474 twitter: NischalShetty <http://twitter.com/nischalshetty> facebook: Nischal <http://facebook.com/nischal> <http://www.justunfollow.com> -- 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.
