You can't set max total instances. GAE dynamically scales. We recently experienced an attempted DDoS on one of our sites and that ran up a $60 bill in 24 hours (two calendar days) instead of the $3 the site usually has. We would have eaten this any way, but in playing, I could easily create a script that would run on dreamhost that would cost a GAE user $1,000 a day, with no means for a GAE user to block it.
I have also had the Google Bot, and the Google DOTS Bot hit my site for $20 worth of hosting in a day. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bay Sent: Friday, September 02, 2011 10:15 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [google-appengine] Why can't I get only 1 instance enabled? The hurry is that if its not a bug - but by design - people should be warned not to begin exessive efforts learning and writing GAE-apps AND those using it currently should begin rewriting for AWS and similar services asap to avoid either extreme costs or downtime. -- 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/-/2z0vMkdmdP4J. 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. -- 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.
