Thanks Guys for your suggestions. If I switch to any GAE pricing model, it will not suit me. However, I have some shared hosting providers which are very cheap. I can switch some sites of mine which are on GAE. Clients here don't know about HRD, Cloud, distributed db. Any mysql db + small disk and RAM space is sufficient for me.
Thanks Romesh Technical Lobby On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 12:46 AM, Jeff Schnitzer <[email protected]>wrote: > You're totally right and I apologize. There are parts of the world > where $9 is more than the average person makes in a day... hell, there > are parts of the world where $9 is more than the average person makes > in a month. It's easy to forget that these places are actually on the > internet today and businesses serving these markets might actually be > reading this mailing list. > > GAE used to be priced for the low-end. Now it's priced for the > high-end. It's still cheap by US-startup standards, but I can see how > that could be catastrophic if your customers are in Haiti, sub-Saharan > Africa, or certain parts of India. > > Unfortunately I don't know the answer. Pricing internationally has > always been hard because different countries have different price > sensitivities. Back when I was serving porn we worked with a company > called Local Billing which set up prices based on an index of what "a > pizza and a beer" costs in the local currency. But that really only > works for products with zero marginal cost of sales. > > I don't know if Google can or will help you, but all of the people > I've met on the GAE team have been great folks. My advice is to reach > out to one of them, explain your business, and ask if there is > anything they can do for you. Maybe the answer is 'nothing', but it > doesn't hurt to ask. > > As a fallback, Robert's suggestion about using namespaces is a good one. > > Jeff > > On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 5:13 AM, romesh soni <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Thank you all for your valuable comments. I liked the appstats stuff and > > will use it. > > > > Hey Greg/Jeff, > > > > I know it sounds like a joke that a person is earning such a small amount > > and is running a business. But that is the truth for us here. The market > is > > very small and clients are not willing to pay. Moreover, all php > developers > > here are charging the same amount and even I know that is not doing a > > business. If I need to work for local clients,I need to have this rates, > > otherwise I will not be able to survive here. I am just trying to make a > few > > clients here. I know how commercial apps are charged and in International > > market what are all kinds of charges companies put in front of customers. > > That is a big market there you guys are playing. And if you think that I > > should focus on international clients then you see that what option I > have - > > sites like freelancer, vworker?? I guess you guys know what rates are > their > > so I do not need to discuss that. > > > > > > Thanks > > Romesh > > > > > > > > > > On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 10:23 AM, Jeff Schnitzer <[email protected]> > > wrote: > >> > >> On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 9:52 PM, Jeff Schnitzer <[email protected]> > >> wrote: > >> > I generally share this opinion - seriously, if $9/mo is a problem, > >> > you're not running a business. That's two lates (one in NYC). > >> > >> That would be "lattes". > >> > >> Jeff > >> > >> -- > >> 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. > > > > -- > 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.
