HI Tony, It might help to know that the $9/month is a minimum spend not a fee. So if you typically spend $2-10, you'd be spending $9-10 instead.
Greg On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 1:03 PM, agp <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
