Right now I am paying $9/month for an always on app... the intent was to develop an app, test it with a small group of beta users, and then eventually scale up - whilst being able to project (and predict) costs in line with usage.
The idea is to be able to experiment with PAAS at low cost, and then also pay for the service at the same (or better) ratio to increased resource usage. But this new pricing model blows it all up and entirely changes the way I see App Engine for experimental (and production) projects: In my case it seems the cost will balloon to $1.96 x 2 x 30 = $117.60/ month... and that's the price even if ZERO requests are processed by the app. This does not make sense at all. I really liked App Engine, but now the annual cost has ballooned to $1411 before processing a single request. Does Google only want big apps on their systems? I understand that App Engine needs to be profitable, but this seems like a move to kill the project. (below is, apparently, pricing at a 50% reduced rate through November) Resource Used Free Billable Charge Frontend Instance Hours: $0.04/Hour 72.77 24.00 48.77 $1.96 -- 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.
