Can anyone from Google explain the following? We're already paying for DataStore and Bandwidth separately so I think it's fair to say that an instance is the equivalent of a chunk of CPU+ RAM. That is fine to pay for them but why an instance is so incredibly expensive for 2011 ?
At normal pricing an instance is 0.08 * 24 * 30 = 57.6 $ per month If I look currently at my instances they are using between 20 and 30 mb each (because all they do is read and write numbers to memcache for counters). Is a server with 32 mb of RAM priced correctly at over 57$ a month ? I know we're not talking hosted servers here and that there are advantages to not managing your own Linux farm. I originally came to AppEngine for that. I think the closest thing we can compare this to is VPS (Virtual Private Servers) since you're also paying for CPU/Ram and Storage is shared. If I compare this with VPS offers on the market, for example OVH for a 39 € (=57$) gets you 2GB of dedicated RAM. That's 2048 mb of Ram on one side versus 30 on the other. Does Google have to buy RAM that is 68x more expensive ? Is it made of solid gold ? If so that should be a selling point. Shouldn't the price of instances take RAM and CPU into account? That would be an incentive to optimize to use less RAM or CPU if not all instances cost the same. An instance with 10 mb of ram could cost 0.01 and an one with 250mb of ram would cost 0.08... ( I don't know what the actual limits are). -- 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.
