I'm in exactly the same position as Peter Petrov. I moved months ago once it was clear from Greg that there was no going back, and I'm never coming back to GAE. The constraints, prior to the pricing changes, were already painful and the trade-off wasn't always attractive. The new pricing was the straw that broke this camel's back.
Luckily there have been a host of new Python PaaS providers since then, I'm now with DotCloud.com and couldn't be happier. The biggest advantage is that they operate on a standard stack so there is very little lock-in. Adieu GAE. On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 10:03 PM, Peter Petrov <[email protected]> wrote: > I've already left GAE a couple of months ago. I.e. immediately after Greg > replied to me that new pricing will come into effect before Python 2.7 and > multithreading. My app has short bursts of thousands QPS, and without > multithreading it was clear to me that for an unknown period I'd have to pay > a very high price. Today's posts here prove that I was right. > > Another reason was the insanely high price for instance hours - more than > 10x the industry average. Sorry Google, but your servers are not made of > gold. Paying that price is simply stupid, and I'm not stupid. > > I've moved to a small VPS cluster at RackSpace Cloud. I rewrote my entire > app as a Node.js application (previously was GAE/Python using Kay). Very > happy so far, I don't think I'll ever return to GAE. > > > On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 4:05 AM, Raymond C. <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I am not asking who is not happy with the new pricing (virtually most of >> GAE users). >> >> I am just asking who is FORCED to leave GAE because you cannot afford to >> keep running on GAE under the new pricing model. Please (if possible) state >> the monthly price change as well. >> >> And what options you are considering? >> >> -- >> 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/-/MDdHgnCrDecJ. >> 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. > -- 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.
