Hey Mike, The difference is due to indexes. Every index write is a datastore operation too. So if your entity has five indexed properties, you've got another 10 datastore operations per entity written.
Robert On Wednesday, August 31, 2011, Michael Robellard <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Google, > > I love Google App Engine, but right now I am at a loss for what to do. > My current billing is $4.98/day. Under the new system it is $34.41/ > day, and that is with the 50% frontend discount. The effort that would > be involved in porting my app to a different architecture is far > beyond what I could accomplish in the next few weeks, and to be honest > I don't want to move off of App Engine. I like not having to deal with > Sys Admin stuff. > > I have to imagine that Google did not intentionally raise my serving > rates by 700%, so that must mean I am doing something wrong in my code/ > design, however I don't know how to fix these problems currently. I > have already done a lot of work in the past to memcache things and do > multiple gets and puts in a single call, and most of my apps time is > spent handling tasks. So I have already done a lot of what is > recommended in the managing resources guide. > > In addition I don't understand how my app says it has 1.05 million > reads and 12.3 million writes per day when I look at Appstats and see > that I have at least 3 datastore gets for every one datastore put and > that's not count next and runquery. > > Thanks, > > Mike > Railroad Empire > appid: railroadempire > > On Aug 31, 6:51 pm, smwatch <[email protected]> wrote: >> Is it really 10 times the original cost.!! Now we will be paying from >> $200/month to $2000/month under new billing. Just out of our reach, >> does not make any business sense to stay with GAE. >> >> We spent huge amount of time and effort to learn and develop in >> Python, and now we are being forced to move out of Google Engine. This >> completely does not make any sense. >> >> Google please respond, you are reading please give us more time to >> either move off your systems, or compensate for existing users. Giving >> a email notice of such a short duration and showing Preview of billing >> so late in the game is just not right. >> >> Google please do the right thing to make this billing more gradual. >> >> Developers all over, please help show your sentiment. > > -- > 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. > > -- ------ Robert Kluin Ezox Systems, LLC -- 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.
