Is this something you could move into Google Cloud SQL ( http://code.google.com/apis/sql/) once it's up and running? You could request beta access and take it for a test run.
Nick On 5 January 2012 12:41, Petey <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > -- 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.
