This price of scalability is an interesting animal. Looking at AWS (for an example) transfer out bandwidth charges alone, the lowest and most expensive usage bracket is full 6x (SIX TIMES) more expensive then the highest and least expensive bracket. Considering that it's just bandwidth and that it considers the least amount of "effort" to dissect and repackage into smaller doses, it is quite clear how much us little guys are subsidization the big boys.
Was the whole idea of volume buying not based on a premise of "economies of scale" ? Using delivery of physical goods as an example, was it all not supposed to be based on the premise that delivering a truck load of something is lot more economical then delivering a single pallet or a single book of matches? If so, then what is it about bandwidth that makes it SIX TIMES more expensive to deliver to us smaller guys? Are these sorts of pricing discounts in fact not the world's biggest price collusions and price fixing? How can the little guy ever manage to compete when it has to forever keep on subsidizing the big boys? Where would the big conglomates ever be and what would really their bottom lines look like if they had to pay their fare share? When it comes to bandwidth, I can not image a price differential that is more than TWICE - between the smallest and the biggest bandwidth users? ARE WE THE ONES WHO ARE MAKING FINANCIALLY VIABLE USAGE MONSTERS SUCH AS WWW.YOUTUBE.COM ?!? On Jul 3, 8:27 am, 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.
