Of course you can say that it's a nice problem to have ;) But if your revenue drops into the negative numbers you are also screwed much quicker. :(
it's running on python. On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 12:24 PM, Gopal Patel <[email protected]> wrote: > on the lighter note, man, I wish my app cost $10000/month to run. ;) > > what are you using ? java or python ? > > On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 2:15 PM, Andrin von Rechenberg > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Hi there >> >> We are a bit confused. From all the threads we see on this mailing list >> it seems that it is expensive to run small applications on GAE in practice >> and that many small developers are turning away from GAE (see note 1). >> >> We are not a small developer. Our monthly cost will go from $10'000 to >> $20'000 per month. So we would think of us as medium/big customers. >> At this point we also would like to state that we LOVE developing system >> on Google AppEngine. Our only issue really is the operating cost. >> >> Amazon offers double the CPU power and 6x the amount of RAM >> (EC2 Small Instance) for the price of one Google Frontend instance. >> >> Amazon offers you a raw machine, you can do whatever you like in this >> machine and don't have the limitations of Google AppEngine's. You want >> to open a socket, you open one. You want to run a powerful fulltext search >> backend, you do so. This makes an amazon CPU hour much more powerful >> than a GAE one and should also be taken into account when thinking about >> pricing. So I just throw a number out and say Google is 4x more expensive >> than Amazon (see note 2) >> >> On the other hand, you have to worry yourself about scale, uptime, >> failovers, >> databases etc. etc. This seems to be Google's argument for the >> justification >> of the 4x higher prices then on amazon. Yes, of course it is very nice to >> not >> having to cary a pager and that someone else is taking care of your >> system, >> but this argument is pointless: For the extra $10'000 per month we are >> going >> to have to spend with the new pricing scheme we will just hire a site >> reliability >> engineer that does nothing but taking care of the EC2 servers. Fulltime. >> Yes >> he might have to stand up occasionally in the middle of the night, but >> most >> of the time he will not have to do anything for his $10'000 per month and >> we >> as the devs wont have to carry a pager either. >> >> We are really thinking about moving out of GAE. We would definitely not >> start another project with the size of ours on GAE. So I'd say for >> medium/big >> size projects GAE isn't ideal either. >> >> So who is Google targeting with Google AppEngine? >> >> We are indeed confused. >> >> With best regards, >> - Andrin, Founder of MiuMeet. >> >> >> >> Note 1) assuming that the discussions on this mailing list are a relevant >> sample >> of the what the average developer feels, which is probably not true >> >> Note 2) 2x the CPU cost, 6x the RAM cost, and you have the limitations of >> Google AppEngines framework. >> >> -- >> 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. > -- 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.
