Google Cloud SQL looks interesting. From http://code.google.com/apis/sql/faq.html#cost "We will give you at least 30 days’ advance notice before we begin billing in the future."
30 days is not enough notice to respond to changes/decisions that may be made. On Jan 5, 2:14 am, Nickolas Daskalou <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
