Thanks Martin, that looks like a great alternative. Do you know anything about Amazon's SNS? Is it applicable as a Channel replacement or am I misunderstanding it? Either way, looks like a good way to replace the now extremely expensive Channel API. Google appears to be pricing themselves out of the cloud computing business. And I agree with the views of a poster in another thread who mentioned that working with App Engine and their changing models is like trying to hit a moving target. Developers can't and won't spend all their time reworking their applications to avoid incurring huge charges when Google changes pricing around.
Thanks, Richard On Aug 31, 7:51 pm, Martin Ceperley <[email protected]> wrote: > Richard, a good alternative to the Channel API is Beacon Push > (http://beaconpush.com/) we have been using it and it's dead simple and works > flawlessly. It supports broadcast messaging (with channel API does not out of > the box) as well as per-user messaging. Also extremely affordable, 3 million > messages for $3.29. > > -Martin > > On Aug 31, 2011, at 10:33 PM, Richard Arrano wrote: > > > > > > > > > I'll be leaving if some of the prices aren't tweaked, particularly the > > channels. I was banking on being able to use a large amount of > > channels, likely in the thousands per day. I did a double take when I > > realized the new price was per hundred rather than per thousand, > > particularly when channels expire after two hours and need to be re- > > created. Does anyone have a good alternative to the Channel API using > > Amazon's solutions? > > > -Richard > > > On Aug 31, 6:05 pm, "Raymond C." <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I am not asking who is not happy with the new pricing (virtually most of > >> GAE > >> users). > > >> I am just asking who is FORCED to leave GAE because you cannot afford to > >> keep running on GAE under the new pricing model. Please (if possible) > >> state > >> the monthly price change as well. > > >> And what options you are considering? > > > -- > > 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 > > athttp://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.
