Hi Andrin, have you tried the Max Idle Instances knob? If you set it to 1 for example you will only be billed for the instances that are used + 1 idle instance.
On Sep 5, 10:11 am, Andrin von Rechenberg <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi there > > We are running a Python GAE service called MiuMeet. > > The current cost is about $296 per day. In November it will be $600 per day. > > Most of our cost comes from the Frontend Instance hours. We apparently need > 4677h per day, thats roughly 200 instances. We peak at around 240 qps. The > average latency is 800ms / request. 240 * 0.8 => 192. So it seems 200 > instances > is exactly what we need at peak. > > However our instances are only 25% active, see here:http://bit.ly/pXZH4t > > We need someone to talk to about the new pricing model and what can be done. > Idle instances will cost us an extra $10k per month. We can't afford that. > > The biggest problem we see is that it seems that AppEngine instances are > idle > often by design: The datastore is slow you have to wait and idle around, > that's > a fact for us. > > We would be really grateful for any advice. > > -Andrin, Founder of MiuMeet > > PS: Here is our billing comparison > > Resource Used Free Billable Charge *CPU Time:* > $0.10/CPU hour 2,797.15 6.50 2,790.65 $279.07 *Bandwidth Out:* > $0.12/GByte 109.32 1.00 108.32 $13.00 *Bandwidth In:* > $0.10/GByte 30.55 1.00 29.55 $2.96 *Stored Data:* > $0.005/GByte-day 101.13 1.00 100.13 $0.51 *Recipients Emailed:* > $0.10/1000 Emails 0.00 2.00 0.00 $0.00 *High Replication Storage:* > $0.008/GByte-day 109.92 0.50 109.42 $0.88 *Backend Usage:* > Prices<http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/billing.html#Billable_Quota_Uni...> > $0.00 $0.72 $0.00 $0.00 *Always On:* > $0.30/Day No - - $0.00 *Total:* $296.42 > Estimated Charges Under New Pricing > > The charges below are estimates of what you would be paying once App > Engine's new pricing > model<http://www.google.com/enterprise/cloud/appengine/pricing.html> > goes > live. The amounts shown below are for your information only, they are not > being charged and therefore do not affect your balance. > > If you would like to optmize your application to reduce your costs in the > future, make sure to read our Optimization > Article<http://code.google.com/appengine/articles/managing-resources.html>. > If you have any additional questions or concerns, please contact us at: > [email protected]. > Frontend Instance Hour costs reflect a 50% price reduction active until > November 20th, 2011. > Resource Used Free Billable Charge *Frontend Instance Hours:* > $0.04/Hour 4,677.04 24.00 4,653.04 $186.13 *Backend Instance Hours:* > $0.08/Hour 0.00 9.00 0.00 $0.00 *Datastore Storage:* > $0.008/GByte-day 109.92 1.00 108.92 $0.88 *Blobstore Storage:* > $0.0057/GByte-day 101.13 5.00 96.13 $0.55 *Datastore Writes:* > $1.00/Million Ops 55.69 0.05 55.64 $55.64 *Datastore Reads:* > $0.70/Million Ops 87.12 0.05 87.07 $60.95 *Small Datastore Operations:* > $0.10/Million Ops 192.77 0.05 192.72 $19.28 *Bandwidth In:* > $0.10/GByte 30.55 1.00 29.55 $2.96 *Bandwidth Out:* > $0.15/GByte 109.32 1.00 108.32 $16.25 *Emails:* > $0.01/100 Messages 0.00 1.00 0.00 $0.00 *XMPP Stanzas:* > $0.01/1000 Stanzas 0.00 1.00 0.00 $0.00 *Opened Channels:* > $0.01/100 Opens 7,180.91 1.00 7,179.91 $71.80 *Total*:* (before clipping to > daily budget) $414.44 > > * Note this total does not take into account the minimum per-application > charge in the new pricing > model<http://www.google.com/enterprise/appengine/appengine_pricing.html> > . -- 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.
