I am currently using ~30 instances, with rough calculations that makes 800$'s a month. If you just calculate 30*34*0.08*30 that makes something around 1700's but I considered improvements and traffic patterns, Anyway, I am paying $2 a day, using python, probably I am earning $8-10, maybe sometimes less than $2
To sum up, if the pricing changes I am doomed If they modify python instances so that they can handle multiple requests at once, that would be great, but otherwise python apps are doomed I think Java and Go should be ok But even with this pricing scheme, if you app is ad based, you are under the risk of fluctuating ad economy But if you have a service with perfect monetization, something like a clever game which siphons users, you should be ok There was a discussion earlier, someone was asking if Twitter could be written on GAE, some said it couldn't be, but Ikai said it can be, I agree that It can be written, but probably they would lose millions of $'s everyday with this pricing scheme :D On Jul 3, 3:27 pm, Tony <[email protected]> wrote: > I just read this posthttp://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~silver/gae.html > > The author seems unhappy with App Engine's offerings and have switched to > EC2, saying when the app scales big, the cost is very high (he used the old > Master/Slave datastore with high latency counted against CPU time). > > I myself like app engine a lot because from what I heard it offers good > scalability without complex setup and maintenance. But I don't have much > experience with it to say if the claims in the above post are true. > Especially now there are changes in pricing, I'm afraid the costs may be > driven a lot higher. > > Can anyone who is having a popular app on app engine give me your thoughts > on the post? Do you see the new pricing scheme make scaling app a lot more > expensive? -- 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.
