As a non Google person and someone was pretty shocked about the price changes I have to say you're over-reacting.
If your application has a average latency of 250ms (which is quite high imho) you can get 345,600 hits per day on the free tier, apparently forever. If you're getting that kind of traffic $9 per month shouldn't be a burden, although granted it doesn't account for traffic spikes. And for the $9 you get an extra 6 hours of instance usage per day which gives you another 86,400 hits. That doesn't even include static pages. Yes the pricing may be heading in the IaaS direction, but that's just the reality of the fact that if you're using IaaS or PaaS you're using compute resources and someone's got to pay. It is quite obvious that this is a pure PaaS offering. We'd all like the pricing to stay the same, hell I'm making a good living off GAE, and there's a lot of apprehension given the uncertainties, but I'd much rather have app engine stay around rather than do the Google Wave. Also, you're confusing 'don't be evil' with 'be a charity'. -- 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.
