This is one of the frustrating things about the new pricing model. The incentives are all wrong. I don't think Google will deliberately try to overcharge us, but in the long run organizations follow incentives - and they no longer have a direct incentive to maximize the efficiency of each instance.
The nice thing about charging for CPU time is that I can control how much CPU time my application uses. Any control I have over the # of instances my app uses seems to be highly indirect and dependent on a number of factors out of my control like datastore and network latency. Jeff On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 12:02 PM, Anders <[email protected]> wrote: > Ok, the new scheduler will start to take down instances more. But can we > really trust that? The more instances the scheduler spawns, the more money > Google makes. There is no incentive for Google to improve the scheduler. > With the new price model the incentive is the opposite: to make the > scheduler spawn a lot of instances. > > At the very least, the new pricing model based on running instances is > confusing. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-appengine/-/M1J6LU5VTFd4T1FK. > 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.
