I've seen it mentioned here before that Google's RAM is made with solid gold. Not sure if it's true or not...
On Dec 14, 6:50 am, John <[email protected]> wrote: > Just started thinking about this... but now that we are basically paying > for all the datastore reads/writes, and bandwidth separately... > > Isn't paying $60 a month for a 600 MHZ instance with only 128 MB ram a > little expensive? > > Just taking a quick glance at EBAY, I can buy a > 2 GHZ machines with over > a GB of memory all day long. > I can buy BRAND NEW Intel Atom Dual-Core D525 Processor(1.8GHz, 1MB L2 > Cache), Support Intel Hyper-Threading technology, > with 1GB memory for ~ $160 all day > longhttp://www.amazon.com/SHUTTLE-XS35V2-PC-Barebone-System/dp/B004XJCCQO... > > Call me crazy, but I still have my 1 GHZ pc I bought back in 1999 (12 years > ago) sitting in the garage and I would have a problem giving it away (It > also has a lot more memory than 128 MB ram). > > A standard (small) SAME PRICEd Amazon EC2 instance comes with 1.7 GB of > memory and even their FREE micro instance gives you 613 MB of memory. > > I understand computers were a lot more expensive back in 1999, but they > have gotten a lot cheaper over the past few years. > > Please justify what I am paying for because right now I am trying to > justify upgrading to the F2 instance class for twice the price ($120/month) > just so I can double up and get a whopping 256MB ram! -- 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.
