That's how I *thought* it would work too, by when trying to change
"Max Idle Instances" to 1 or 2, the setting does not stick - it is
flipped back to "automatic" after clicking the save button. So "always
on" would cost at least $1411yr. I probably have to switch to a more
responsive platform.


On Sep 6, 7:37 pm, Barry Hunter <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. )

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