If that's the case, you can split the load between a front-end and a backend instance and still stay within the free quota limits. Run the cron job on a backend for 9 free hours, and on the front-end for 15 hours. And just because your're using 24 total instance hours doesn't mean the app is not scaleable. If the cron job currently takes 1 second to do its work every two minutes, but later that expands 30x to 30 seconds, you're still within the free quota limit. Or if you want to make it twice is frequent, you're still within the free quota.
On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 4:52 PM, Jon McAlister <[email protected]> wrote: > The app is relatively quick. The cause of the instance hours is that > the app has a cron job which runs once every two minutes. It returns > quickly, but it keeps the instance pegged all day long. So, low-cpu > but high instance-usage. > > On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 2:40 PM, Steve Sherrie <[email protected]> > wrote: > > But in all seriousness, you're saying it would be a gargantuan feat to > > improve those figures? > > To get such a extreme difference (3min cpu => 28+ frontend instance > hours) > > you're probably heavily relying on synchronous RPCs in some way, and > that's > > exactly the kind of thing that can be made substantially more > cost-efficient > > under the new billing with relatively little effort. Is this the case? > > > > Stove (I saw bridesmaids yesterday) > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Google App Engine" group. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-appengine/-/xNhQScOpLG4J. > > 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.
