I'm having this exact same issue too. Now, I think the $0.01/1k stanza is a fair price, but the minimum is a serious killer for an application uses hardly any of all the other quotas except for XMPP. For my current application, I'm looking at a daily estimated bill of $0.05-$0.15 for 5 days per week, all from XMPP stanzas. That's an average of $0.50 billing per week, but I will be forced to pay $2.10 per week for that.
I hope that the purpose of the minimum charge is to reduce credit card charges overhead, and not to punish small applications that cannot stay under the quota. Seeing as there are others that face the same problem I have, I'd like to propose two possible solutions. 1) Allow us the flexibility to adjust our free quotas to favor certain services over others 2) Allow us to pay (e.g.) $5 credit upfront in-lieu of the minimum charge. Our daily usage is then deducted from the credit. -- 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/-/eeY1ynEOZbMJ. 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.
