+1 On May 12, 6:20 pm, Tim <[email protected]> wrote: > I agree, Google is not a charity, but equally I thought they had a vested > interest in bringing developers on board using their technologies and APIs. > > Here's a suggestion > "free" is a quota like the new quota, 24 instance hours etc > "enterprise" is like the new paid for system, with easy to bulk-manage > instance hours etc > and somewhere in between, you introduce a paid for scheme that's more like > the old free quota, say: > - No more than 10 (5 ? 3 ?) simultaneous instances at any one time > - X number of CPU hours per day (rather than instance hours) > - higher than "free" limits, if any on database API calls etc > but the important thing being that, when your cap is used up for the day, > things stop, so we know that we're not going to accidentally run up a huge > bill while we're trying things out with a few hundred users, 10s of queries > per minute or hour... > > You could call this "hobbyist" or "personal" or "soho" - put a fixed price > on it ($30 / month?), enough to keep out spammers and abusers, but enough to > let people do interesting things without busting your systems, enough for > there to be a groundswell of people who know enough about GAE that the > platform becomes of interest to enterprise (who need a fungible pool of > developers to adopt any technology). > > That way we small guys can still see it as something we can experiment with > and maybe handle the odd burst of users, and if we progress beyond that, > then we get into the enterprise level billing. > > The leap at the moment from "free" to "enterprise" is maybe what's > underlying people's concerns, surely it's not beyond the skills of Google to > introduce some more tiers and find a variety of sweet spots, if only to suck > a few of us back in :)
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