+1 Waleed's comment on support. $500 per month is way to high. On Jun 28, 7:12 pm, Waleed Abdulla <[email protected]> wrote: > Another point is support. Most hosting companies give you phone support if > you pay $100/month (or less). How come GAE charges $500 per month for it? > It's understandable not to offer it for free users, or even below a certain > pay limit. But how about customers who already pay thousands of dollars a > month in hosting fees? It's totally unreasonable not to include support with > that. It doesn't make business sense and it alienates your paying customers. > > On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 12:37 PM, Branko Vukelic <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > > > > > > On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 9:00 PM, Will <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Speaking for myself, I'm paying more than $75 per month right now, and > > yes, > > > I will bite the bullet and pay up. But the feeling is totally different. > > > Before, I stay because I want to; now, I stay because I have to. Think > > about > > > Microsoft, they charge ridiculous high amount of dollar for their > > operating > > > systems while others offer alternatives for free. Why? Because they think > > > they can, people will bite the bullet and stay. But when a viable choice > > > comes, people flee. And now is the beginning of the end of their empire. > > > Will Google follow the suit? > > > Well, that's the thing. It's the "What did you expect?" factor. > > > Did we seriously expect that this (otherwise great) platform will be > > cheap forever? "Look, Google is giving away their own tech, so we can > > build sites at ridiculously low price!" Not a chance. If you think > > rationally about it, there was no chance it could have been that way > > except maybe initially to attract developers and lock them into the > > platform. Nobody lied to us here. They just never claimed it'd be > > almost free forever. > > > You are aware that there was a preview of the business edition[1]? It > > lists some of the features that people here were screaming for (SSL on > > custom domains anyone?). Well, it will come to the 'normal' GAE, but > > I'm guessing not before the normal GAE _becomes_ the business edition. > > > [1]http://code.google.com/appengine/business/ > > > -- > > Branko Vukelić > > [email protected] > > > Lead Developer > > Herd Hound (tm) - Travel that doesn't bite > >www.herdhound.com > > > -- > > 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.
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