A max-instances setting would, as you say, let you spread your "capacity exceeded" failures to some proportion of requests made during the busiest periods rather than to all requests at some time period at the end of the day/week/month, but it would also risk failing to serve some requests which, with hindsight, could have been served without exceeding the overall quota (ie a short busy burst followed by a long period of normal traffic).
That pattern is effectively what normal hosting achieves, whereas GAE is expressly designed to be able to, out of the box, not fall over in that way, so while I see your point in requesting such a control facility, I can see why it wasn't provided up front and why it might not be seen as a high priority by the builders and many of the users of GAE. -- T -- 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/-/L7VH7nozjeMJ. 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.
