how much memory can you use is not clear. and it is not totally free. and installing a memache in a ec2 instance needs less than 5 minutes and will run faster.
On Sep 5, 1:34 am, Strom <[email protected]> wrote: > Regarding available memory, memcache is free in GAE. > > On Sep 4, 4:26 pm, Tim Hoffman <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hi > > > More than a few people have said in the groups lately that appengine is > > unsuitable for entry level apps due to the new pricing schedule. > > I am not so sure, but there hasn't been any real information about the > > alternatives, so I thought I would start to collate some numbers > > > So to that end I have included a spreadsheet here with a summary of a number > > of VPS or cloud providers solutions that I would consider > > might be suitable to run a small entry level appengine app. > > > For the sake of the discussion you would want to run a stack that looks like > > the following > > > linux > > nginx/apache > > a light weight stack say webapp2, pyramid, tipfy (a lightweight framework) > > an ORM (sqlobject/Storm) > > and mysql > > > This doesn't really equate to a heroku offering, but lets say in each case > > we need a single instance of something running, 512MB at a minimum to run > > the small stack and an RDBMS , with at least 1GB of > > storage available if no OS is factored in and 5GB if the OS counts in the > > storage allocation. > > > So here is a > > spreadsheet.https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0At1LTa6ONStgdExuRUl2QUdO... > > > I know none of these compare service wise directly with appengine. But > > these are the sort of services people name > > frequently as viable alternatives that are cheaper than appengine. So lets > > look at the reallity > > > The equivalent appengine basic service would be a single permanently idle > > instance running 24 hours a day, plus low volume of traffic and < 1GB of > > data in the datastore. So more instances might spin up. Under 2.7 with > > threading requests we might not see more instance start. A $ figure to > > apply to such an appengine app > > would probably be between $30 and $40 per month. > > > Please suggest refinements to these models, and additonal detail to go into > > the spread sheet. > > > On the face of it I am not convinced many of these services are > > significantly cheaper than appengine especially when you take into account > > most of them > > require you to manage the complete stack. > > > Hope this helps focus the discussion and provide some reality checks. > > > I personally have no plans to move off appengine. But due plan to do some > > tuning. > > > Regards > > > Tim -- 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.
