Here's my situation: - I'm running an app as a public service, and I'd rather not have to charge for it. Our google overlords have not given me any way to duck the new pricing for my do-gooder app, so I'm looking to game the system if I can. :)
- My app is used infrequently by humans, in short bursts. Normal use would probably stay under the new free quotas, because the instance-alive-time x number-of-bursts-per-day < 24 hours. - There are kiosks which show information from my app. The kiosk gets a dynamic HTML page in one go, the page includes many DIVs to display to the user over the course of 4-5 minutes or so. When it's gotten through all the DIVs, it refreshes from the server, to pick up any new updates. In the old pricing model, this wasn't a problem. But in the new model, the kiosk "heartbeats" are keeping an instance alive. That burns up my free quota. When a human uses the app to browse or update data, I have to pay for it 100% of the time. So I'm wondering if anyone here has an idea of a different way to deal with the Kiosks, to allow my instances to go away completely between human interactions. One idea I had was that when a user interaction happened, I could compute the Kiosk page and push it someplace. I can't push it to the Kiosk itself, of course, so I'd have to push it someplace that the Kiosk could hit it without spinning up a new instance in GAE. GAE has an edge cache, but I don't think there's any way for me to prime that. I could push to a different GAE app that just handles the Kiosks, but that sounds like willfully creating multiple apps to avoid quota charges, which is verboten. I could push it to Amazon S3. That's not awful, and I've certainly done hybrid GAE/AWS apps before. But a two cloud solution is certainly not my first choice on the complexity front. A half-assed solution would be just to have the Kiosk go through the DIVs several times before refreshing. That's not a horrible solution, but I'm hoping some clever developer here has a better idea… Thoughts? -Joshua -- 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.
