I know scaling has traditionally been not an easy task, but it is a lot easier on IAAS because not only you can scale out with just a few click, but you can also scale up using a powerful instance type. I know quite a number of local small companies in person that are doing great business on AWS in terms of scaling with just a few powerful EC2 instances, that the price is much more effective than running on GAE because each EC2 instance can do a lot of things.
GAE was designed to only scale out to support a large number of users, which each instance can do very little thing (e.g. one process per instance at a time). Thats why the original pricing model make sense because we dont have to care how GAE run our code. Maybe listen to the guys from stackoverflow talk about scaling up is more convincing: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/12/my-scaling-hero.html http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/06/scaling-up-vs-scaling-out-hidden-costs.html -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-appengine/-/OifP-yyICyIJ. 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.
