Dear Community, First of all, I loved App Engine since its inception in 2008, I was very exciting and happy to get my hands on App Engine and Python in June 2008.
But now I'm so sorry and sad that I will have to leave. My site V2EX.com ( v2ex.appspot.com ) is one of the largest communities of developers and designers in China, it's launched on App Engine since 2010. Now serving about 40000 page-views a day, 13000+ registered users, 165000+ posts and ranked 11800 according to Alexa. New pricing means 10x change for me, it will go from $0.9 to $12.76 a day (numbers taken from usage history on Nov 1), so it'll be $360 a month. I'm living in China, $360 can do many meaningful things here, it's almost enough to hire someone. Since my site is not making enough money now, at least it can't cover new pricing, so I'm afraid that I'll have to leave and port my site to AWS/Linode. Because new pricing not just more expensive, it also prevented me to develop new features. Since my site is a very active community, so even I got it optimized, memcache can't always help because each time when users post something, then pages need to be updated. More active posting, more updates, and that leads to millions datastore reads/writes every day. Btw I was just curious about how much would it cost to run Jaiku.com under new pricing? In old pricing, datastore reads/writes are not charged, so it was safe for active communities like my site. But now, more interactions mean unaffordable bills. I'm feeling really really bad about this change. Perhaps it's also a good chance for me to figure out a better way to make more money. Hasta la vista, Google App Engine. Xin Liu @livid -- 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/-/cmUxJ1LeSZYJ. 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.
