Before the pricing change it cost us about $100. I understand the prices need to go up, but I don't think this is even what App Engine had in mind when they changed the numbers. My guess for how much this cost Google is about $5 on their end. The main reason why this cost so much of course is because they now charge per write and our list property, which has about 18 values per entity, is indexed.
If there was some way to set a lower priority or rate on the writes, and thus cost us less money, that would be great. We don't necessarily need those writes to go through instantly and at least with instances we can make sure to spread out our processing to save us instance cost. With writes there is no low priority option. It's sad because with regular servers you don't get charged for writes, just for how much processing power/memory it takes to do something in a certain amount of time. We are going to have to update these values every once in a while and can't afford for it to cost us thousands of dollars every time we need to change some data. Please help. We love App Engine, except for this issue. -- 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.
