On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 6:55 PM, alex <[email protected]> wrote: > Let's say you move one of your apps to Rackspace.
A Rackspace instance is not interesting to me. I would use another service where I'm primarily billed per resources and where I don't have to think about maintenance. Preferably it's a service with an open architecture, to avoid vendor login. Many years ago, I was using EscapeBox.net, a BSD based service somewhere in between Google App Engine and AWS. It's not available anymore. Anyway, currently I'm still using the 50 USD equivalent credit that Google assigned to each app during the transition period. However, when that credit expires, then my costs will go up from something like 1 USD (for the occasional over-quota) to 70 to 90 USD per month! And more, if I add more apps. Of course I could downgrade apps to free quota only, but then these apps will be unreachable in important moments. That may for example be during a demonstration, or after someone mentioned one of my apps on Twitter. In a nutshell: With the new pricing model App Engine loses a lot of appeal to me. Google should not forget that toy projects are important: * They may go commercial. * They sharpen the developer's skills. * They are used to show the developer's customers how cool App Engine is, by proof of concept. * They help create a fan base. -- 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.
