It depends on how much traffic you expect to be sent. My gut feeling tells me Slashdot doesn't bomb sites as much as it used to. I had a blog post I wrote get on the first page of Hacker News which resulted in 3500 pageviews in a short period of time (my blog is hosted on Wordpress). 3500 pageviews isn't going to take a mostly static site down.
Are you expecting a marketing push? Gaming Digg? We need more details! -- Ikai Lan Developer Programs Engineer, Google App Engine plus.ikailan.com | twitter.com/ikai On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 12:10 PM, blackpawn <[email protected]>wrote: > good question, i'm curious as well! i think most should scale > sublinear since you'll get better cache rates with huge influx of > visitors. i have a $100/day set at the moment. > > On Jan 4, 4:41 pm, powwow <[email protected]> wrote: > > How much daily budget should I set to prepare for possible slashdot > > effect? I know this is a general question. I have a basic site with > > datastore read/writes, datastore blob read/writes and just some > > loading of static files (gwt). > > > > What are some of your daily budgets your company has set aside? Have > > you ever reached your limits? Thanks. > > -- > 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.
