I have just seen the estimated for the new pricing model and to be honest: I am horrified. I have spent a lot of time learning python and the AppEngine platform because it seemed like a cheap and trustable solution. I agree it was almost too cheap but a 17x increase is really a bit much for me.
My websites extensively use memcache to store stats. Granted I get a lot of requests per day (about 1 million) but I am still baffled by the price increase. All my pages do is get 7 parameters from a get request and store them in memcache, eventually writing to DataStore every 15 minutes. I spent a lot of time optimizing for memcache because DataStore writes where expensive... My stats website will now cost me 7.05 $ per day as opposed to 0.41 $ before. I am afraid I am not going to pay 211 $ monthly (instead of 12 $). just to have my daily stats. I am just glad my business doesn't depend on my stats and I'll just trash them. All I will have lost are countless hours... My company's website (http://smallte.ch hosted on websmalltech.appspot.com) will now cost me about 144$ monthly. It's a website with rather low traffic with just one mini webpage that gets requested a lot (from memcache) by my iPhone apps. It was basically free before if it hadn't been for the 9$ "always on" option I had. Prior to switching to AppEngine this website was handled by a 19.99 € server from OVH.com and it worked well. I just changed for the security of being hosted on Google and to get rid of Linux maintenance. My smallte.ch website has 6 instances (3 resident doing nothing). How the can six instances at 29 mb each (totaling 174 mb of memory usage) cost so much money ? How can these instances cost 140 $/month? https://skitch.com/smalltech/fipfa/instances-smallte.ch I mean seriously for the 100 Euros per month I can get this machine: http://www.ovh.com/fr/serveurs_dedies/eg_ssd.xml. Yes that's 24 Gb, not 0.174 gb. Sure it's not in the cloud but man aren't we being extorted here ? Am I the only one seeing such an increase ? -- 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.
