I've never expected it to be a 'charity'. The first time I looked at GAE in 2008, it had a price tag.
Here is my experience: 1. I looked at GAE and AWS, GAE won hands down because of its lower price and zero system administrative overhead. 2. I put my business on it seriously. 3. In this three years, Google has got a good sense of what GAE is really like because so many people have spent time building apps on it. I would guess many are like me, lower price is a major factor. 4. Now it is making a drastic price increase. The point is not totally about the price, it is about the magnitude of the price increase, to a point that it invalidates the original assessment that GAE being a winning platform, only after my apps and yours have been on it for a while. It is about fairness and trust, to some extend. Does AWS or Azure have similar lengthy 'preview' phase and a big price increase at the end? I don't recall. Best, Will On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 12:13 AM, Kenneth <[email protected]>wrote: > 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. > -- 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.
