Why have a tiered pricing at all? Sounds backwards for a cloud computing platform.
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 10:43 PM, Brandon Donnelson <[email protected] > wrote: > Fair to say, good point. > On May 12, 2011 9:37 AM, "Nischal Shetty" <[email protected]> > wrote: > > GAE now has Free and Enterprise plans. The free plan is useless for any > > serious app and the enterprise plan will rip single developers like me > and > > everyone else who thinks they can sustain this through adsense and other > > means (unless you do not want to make anything for yourself). > > > > There should be a third plan in between the free and enterprise and that > > plan exists, it is the current paid plan that we are all making use of > where > > we pay for the CPU Hours. Increase the price for that if you want! > > > > I currently pay around $200-$300 per month to GAE. I can go a maximum of > 2x > > increase in price (I would still cry a couple of nights and curse whoever > > thought of charging so much) but anything above that would simply make me > > move on to some other platform. > > > > I'm guessing there would be more like me. Enterprises will not spread the > > word about GAE, most if not all will not participate in your google group > > discussion to help others out, no one will tweet "thank you GAE for > making > > my life easier". We are not Enterprise! > > > > There are a lot of things that won't happen if GAE starts treating > > individual devs (or small teams of 2-3 devs) as ENTERPRISE! > > > > Bring out a third plan. Don't be Evil. > > > > On 12 May 2011 21:19, Brandon Donnelson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> I'm sorry, but what the FUD is going on in here :). > >> > >> Brandon > >> > >> -- > >> 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> <http://www.buffr.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. > > > > -- > 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.
