I am currently looking building a solution for people in your situation. Basically I'd be a front and Caching proxy for Free Apps. I get about 75% cache hits so an app like your that has spikes only once in a while would likely not go over if it were running behind my software.
The challenge is that if the goal is to avoid a $9 fee, I can't really charge more than $5 and it is hard to offer any tech support on a product that is $5 a month. So I haven't worked out all the details. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of agp Sent: Monday, October 03, 2011 1:04 PM To: Google App Engine Subject: [google-appengine] Re: GAE Should charge but $9 per app Well I guess that idea us out the window then. I will have to hope my CMS server can stay low then or my site goes black for a day. Like I said before I have no issue paying but when 28days out of 31 it is in the free zone it is difficult to swallow the $9 per month cost, for $2-10 billable. Charging for the ability to be charged is backwards to me. I am making money from the site so I will pay to for it but it is a very small company and that should be kept in line. My site is inactive much of the day but then has 18-20 hours of frontend instance hours because you spawn 2 instances most starts up when 1 would be just fine because there is only one user but the cms initialization is costly. On Oct 3, 2:43 pm, "Ikai Lan (Google)" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Tony, > > Splitting your application to dodge payment of fees is against the > terms of service, section 4.4: > > http://code.google.com/appengine/terms.html > > -- > Ikai Lan > Developer Programs Engineer, Google App Engine plus.ikailan.com | > twitter.com/ikai > > > > > > > > On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 12:11 PM, agp <[email protected]> wrote: > > So I have no issues paying for usage. My apps can be scaled back to > > the free status and I am doing that not because they are charging > > but because they are charging $9 per application. What does this > > mean instead of 2 applications (one for my cms and one for java) I > > will have 3 so I can save the instance hours. One app will be for > > images and static content, one for CMS and the other for the custom > > java code. What does that save google nothing. I used to pay $20 per > > month and was happy to do that. I came to GAE for scalability not the cost. > > My apps were targeted for usage at .05-$1 per day day for usage, I > > had no problem and almost turned on billing only to see that the > > ability to do the scalability may cost me more then that scalability > > might run for the month. > > > Lets say we will pay but bring down the per app charge. Maybe $15 > > per account (up to 3 apps) plus usage. Please google rethink. For > > the price you guys are going to I can get a VPN for under $40 a > > month and may have to look at that. > > > -- > > 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.
