We run a bunch of internal Applications and a bunch of public experiments on GAE. The internal Applications are critical for our company but previously GAE4B as not sustainable for us - see https://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine/msg/00ad4ae42b320ebd .
The new pricing model addresses most of my concerns regarding GAE4B. Until now we have paying one or two dozen US$ for running highly critical business applications on GAE and frankly that was too cheap. I hope it will not get too expensive in near future. We spend a LOT of time in urlfetch. Connecting to S3, (PDF generation|OCR|SOLR|SQL|Authentication|etc) as a Webservice. So our instances spend most time sitting there consuming memory and no CPU and waiting for some external Service to do something. This waiting was up to now certainly to cheap - more or less fro free. But seeing it being billed by the instance hour somewhat worries me. When running big map reduce jobs currently we see 40-60 instances coming online for a few minutes, costing us nearly nothing because they consume barely CPU - too cheap. The new pricing model would make such runs probably too expensive. I hope in instance parallelism will help here but I'm skeptical. Also it was nice to be able to host experimental/pro bono applications which received only a few hundred requests per hour at a very competitive price. It would be a shame if GAE would drop out of that model. I understand for the Premium subscription this is still possible, but for 9U$/month/app it will not viable for most people to run half a dozen tiny apps on GAE. Perhaps this is intentional, perhaps not. Still, I'm happy for GAE to be moving in the direction of becoming a real business. I'm also impressed by Google beeing open about the fact that this actually IS a price increase. --md -- 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.
