Gregory, I just want to let you guys know that I love app engine and my app does not need major scalability, and never will. However I like app engine or reasons OTHER than scalability. I like the ease of use, essentially the PAaS aspect. I love the gae apis available. I love the dashboard. I have grown to love the datastore, and especially db.py. I love the deployment system, etc.
So what I am saying is I love app engine for all my projects, big and small. I will never have 20TB of data, with 600 instances spun up and millions of requests. I find it hard to believe that so many people do. But I love app engine much better than EC2 so please remember us small guys when you are making your pricing schemes up. On Sep 5, 3:00 pm, "Gregory D'alesandre" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Sasha, > > It is indeed more expensive to run App Engine than the alternatives you > mentioned for a few reasons: > - We have a lot of infrastructure built out around the core machines that we > don't charge for specifically but are included in the price of what you pay > for (the request queue, the scheduler, all of the free APIs, etc) > - It is a fully support service meaning there are people who keep it running > 24 hours a day, even when something goes wrong in a datacenter (which will > happen at some point) we ensure it is not up to you to fix it. > > There have been a number of posts to the list about people running really > small services that could fit on a single EC2 micro-instance, if what you > are running can fit on that, and you never expect to scale past that, EC2 > will likely be cheaper. But part of what you are getting with App Engine is > the ability to scale when you need to without having to completely > re-architect your app and without having to wake up if it happens in the > middle of the night to figure out how much capacity you need. Frankly > though, even on small apps, EC2 might not be cheaper if you have an app that > gets very little traffic as App Engine apps under the free quota are free > indefinitely whereas I don't believe any other service offers free capacity > indefinitely. > > Hope that helps explain it, > > Greg > > > > > > > > On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 5:27 AM, Sasha Hart <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sep 2, 2:08 am, keakon lolicon <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I wish I was the one who made a wrong decision. > > > Ouch. > > > It is sad that the billing changes seem to price a ton of > > international customers out of the market. > > > I wonder if recent events mean that the App Engine model (for lack of > > a more precise term - here I mean the technology, not the business) is > > just inherently much more costly than alternative models (like typical > > VPS or EC2). Does the price reflect additional technological overhead? > > Could others make changes to the model to run a similar service more > > cheaply? > > > -- > > 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.
