One thing to realise about the before and after 'prediction', it just shows what the cost would be at the current settings.
With a few simple tweaks to the settings for the application, you can probably reduce the price substantially. http://code.google.com/appengine/articles/managing-resources.html (eg, 'always on' means you have 3 instances always running. With the settings you can bring it down so that there are only instances being spun up to serve requests. Can make it so there is still an instance ready to serve request - ie one instance 'always on' - which would be your free instance. Then when you have spikes of traffic, you would pay for extra instances. These might well fit in the $9 month minimum spend anyway. ) Another thing, if you really do want to keep 3 instances 'around' can buy reserved instance hours, so the cost will only be 2.5c an instance hour. And you get a $50 credit, now, which will help 'tie you over' until multithreading is generally available. which should mean even less instances. On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 9:40 PM, Rori Stumpf <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > -- 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.
