I agree with pretty much everything you said. On Sep 15, 11:53 pm, JH <[email protected]> wrote: > When first seeing the new pricing I was very upset. From watching > this group I wasn't the only one. However, at the risk of angering > some I'd like to report my findings. > > When first seeing the new pricing my first idea was to change > providers. Not only to save some money, but also in fear of the fact > that GAE may very well be over in 3 years with so many others leaving > due to the new pricing. > > So my first stop was AWS. With so much buzz surrounding aws plus so > many companies using it they must be a great product. However you > have to be careful to look under the covers. > > GAE is a PaaS. That's why I love GAE. Everything is taken care of > for you. However some of the tasks are not that hard so for now we > won't factor that into the price. > > AWS has micro instances available for a pretty cheap price. But, > that's not all you need. You need a datastore. So you either run it > on your micro instance, using a good chunk of resources or you pay for > RDS/SimpleDB. So if we choose simpleDB (GAE made everyone fall in > love with NoSQL) you now have 2 products to pay for. What about > memcache? Well AWS just introduced Elasticache. Another bill, and > not a cheap one I might add. What about map reduce? That will be an > additional fee. And I'm not going to get into scaling as I really > don't personally need it. But for a fee AWS has elastic load > balancers... > > So let's stick with PaaS. Heroku sounds good. They are suppose to be > getting python soon! 1 web dyno + 1 worker dyno + 20 gig of shared > database storage = $50/month. Wowsers! What about cron? That will > be $3/month. Memcache can run $20-$3500 / month! These guys charge > you for everything! So many of these things are included with GAE. > > What about dotcloud? Well their first paid tier starts at $99/month. > > So I'm not out to anger the community. I realize everyone's app is > different and some people's bills have gone up 100x, etc. I just > wanted to point out that finding a better deal may not be so easy. I > really hope that people stay on GAE as I hope it can continue to run > for many more years. > > Oh yeah, not to mention what a cool platform this is to develop on. > Task queues, cron, deployments, memcache, logging (I forgot to mention > that Heroku charges for logging). And it's all managed for you. No > need to wake up at 2am because your server is down. Or your mysql > table is corrupt... I'm just saying.
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