Would it be cheaper to run it as a single multitenancy app? On 9 November 2011 20:35, Daniel Florey <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > we are running a tool on App Engine that allows users to sync GMail contacts > between different Google / Google Apps accounts. > https://www.google.com/enterprise/marketplace/viewListing?productListingId=2083+12830481423215493060 > > We make a dedicated deploy to app engine for each customer (company) so that > each client has full control over the datastore permissions etc. > Right now we have ~2000 instances running on GAE. A lot of these companies > switched to Google Apps after evaluating our tool that gives them missing > core functionality. > > Each client pays between 50€ (small enterprises) and 200€ (large > enterprises) for our tool and is also in charge for handling the app engine > costs. > Most of the small businesses (non-profits or enterprises with very few > people) have been able to run the app within the free quota. > When exceeding the quota they have been charged a few cents per day on top > for the resources consumed. > After the price change I received hundreds of support requests / complaints > in the last two days because people where running out of quota as the apps > have been shut down. > Our clients may be willing to pay the additional resources required, but > most of them will not be able to pay $9 / month which by far exceeds the > costs of our tool. > This would increase the total cost from 50€/year to at least 150€/year for > even the smallest companies. > So what killing our business is not the new quota (we have spent a lot of > effort to optimize the resources consumption with good results) it is the > minimum fee of $9 / month. > Any ideas how to handle this? > Thanks, > Daniel > > -- > 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/-/thg1JWk6R7kJ. > 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. >
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