Yes, Thanks for your explanations,
What If I want my app to remain under a fixed amount of instances whatever
spike happen ?

On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Johan Euphrosine <[email protected]> wrote:

> You should be able to control the number of instances by using new
> performance settings in "Application Settings > Performance":
>
> "Min Pending Latency" allows you to maximize existing instance usage
> over new instance creation at the expense of potential increased
> latency:
> The scheduler will rather have the request waiting for at least "Min
> Pending Latency" in the pending queue if no instance is available,
> rather than starting a new instances for handling it.
>
> "Max Idle Instance" allows you to minimize the amount of Idle instance
> the scheduler keeps around for handling traffic spikes, and enforce
> that you don't get billed for more than "Number of Active Instances +
> Max Idle Instances".
> The scheduler will rather kill existing instance down to "Max Idle
> Instance" rather than keeping them alive at the expense of an
> increased amount of instance startup/shutdown cycle.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 2:06 PM, Roch Delsalle <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I'm not leaving yet but I'll if the scheduler doesn't let me choose how
> many
> > Instances I want.
> >
> > On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 2:12 PM, Joshua Smith <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> I'm not leaving GAE, but in the comments on a RWW article, I saw that
> the
> >> AppScale folks ( http://appscale.cs.ucsb.edu/ ) seem to be trolling for
> >> customers.  (I mean trolling in the fishing sense, no the usenet sense.)
> >> I'm sure those people must be on these mailing lists.  Perhaps one of
> them
> >> could speak up to how turn-key their solution is at this point?
> >> I wonder if they've run any big apps like CDN-in-a-box on AWS, to see
> how
> >> the costs and performance compare.
> >> On Sep 4, 2011, at 8:02 AM, Tim Hoffman wrote:
> >>
> >> Raymond
> >> Unfortunately I don't see a lot of postings detailing what the real
> >> alternatives to appengine are, what
> >> certain size traffic sites and data sets would actually cost to run on
> >> these alternatives.
> >> May be you could provide a bit of an over view of your apps design, what
> >> its costing you,
> >> how much it would cost to move elsewhere and run it on some other
> platform
> >> and what it would really cost to run
> >> on that platform. What are the strengths and weaknesses of these other
> >> platforms are, so that others in this community
> >> can get some guidance.
> >> Lots of people are throwing around statements like it is cheaper to run
> on
> >> heroku or AWS, but just not a lot of hard facts
> >> at the moment.
> >> A quick look at Heroku tells me a single dyno + 20GB shared DB will cost
> >> $15 per month, and 2 dynos + 20GB
> >> shared DB is $50 per month.  Now I know nothing about Heroku but thats
> >> what their pricing page is telling me.
> >>  (Correct these figures if they are wrong)
> >> Which all suggests to me that Heroku would cost about the same to host a
> >> small appengine app.
> >> Rgds
> >> Tim
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