Or just MaxCDN http://www.maxcdn.com/pricing
Can get a Terabyte of free bandwidth. After that its $0.070 / GB. But often with cheap packages available. (I do use maxcdn, and the service is pretty good. I have had problems with large number of concurrent requests. ie they struggle, serving a page with many hundreds of images. But for less than 50 or so, is fine) On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 12:25 PM, Barry Hunter <[email protected]> wrote: > I would perhaps suggest trying a linux Amazon Micro instance sitting > in front. Just a basic install of varnish should do the trick* > http://harish11g.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/varnish-page-cache-aws-configure.html > (and make sure your application is serving headers that allow caching) > > Can get it free for a year: > http://aws.amazon.com/free/ > > Although you do only get 15 GB of outgoing bandwidth free. After than > it is $0.120 per GB - pay as go, no minimum fee. > > But that might be enough to tie you over for a few weeks. > > > I dont know of a provider that gives you unlimited bandwidth for free. > If they do, its probably really bad (slow/unreliable), so as to be not > worth the bother. > Can get a reasonable VPS tho, for about $15 a month. Some offer > generous bandwidth allowances. > > > But if you going to be paying about $15 a month, may as well pay that > for appengine directly, its also 0.12/Gb. Your $9 a month minimum > gives you 75Gb a month. > > > > > * If one instance struggles with the load, can also get a free windows > instance. And an elastic load balancer, but the configuration is > getting much more complicated then. > > > On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 12:09 PM, noiv <[email protected]> wrote: >> Thanks Rob, Richard, >> >> the image tiles are directly served from GAE and only outgoing bandwidth >> limits capacity. I'm going to reach out in Winter for sponsoring, but the >> question is how to survive next 8 weeks? >> >> If I understand you correctly there might be an option to put a provider >> with unlimited bandwidth in front, so GAE serves each image only once. How >> could I start that? >> >> -- Torsten >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On Wednesday, August 22, 2012 11:55:13 AM UTC+2, Rob Coops wrote: >>> >>> The big question for me is where are you serving these images from? >>> If you are serving them directly from NASA servers or from an alternative >>> source then you would most likely see very little traffic as most of it will >>> be just URI's pointing to the images. There are a lot of hosting companies >>> out there that claim to deliver unlimited bandwidth (not true I am sure, but >>> worth giving it a shot). GAE seems to have been purely at delivering >>> functionality actual content should be served from other locations if you >>> want to keep bill within reason. >>> >>> If you are already showing people the images from an location other then >>> GAE you will have to choose to limit the amount of data people can consume >>> (only a static image no zooming, panning or any other fancy stuff) informing >>> visitors that you are unable to afford this functionality due to the high >>> bandwidth demands. If that still won't do it you could attempt to find some >>> company willing to sponsor your efforts, unfortunately the nature of GAE >>> means that portability is not to great so moving to an alternative host will >>> be difficult at best. >>> >>> I have seen many projects that got sponsorship from companies or >>> government organisations to allow them to continue to provide the unique >>> information to viewers. >>> >>> On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 11:40 AM, Richard Watson <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Which resources are being hit the hardest? Outgoing bandwidth? >>>> >>>> >>>> On Wednesday, August 22, 2012 6:51:45 AM UTC+2, Torsten Becker wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>> since two years I’m running a blog at GAE focusing the Arctic and as an >>>>> unique feature a Google Map with daily high resolution Arctic satellite >>>>> images from NASA was included. The NASA images need to be tiled, cached >>>>> and >>>>> served and this process runs on GAE, too. >>>>> >>>>> Usually interest is low during dark Arctic Winter and rises in September >>>>> the time sea ice reaches its minimum extent. No problem so far with the >>>>> free >>>>> quota on outgoing bandwidth. >>>>> >>>>> This year is different: Latest Arctic storm reduced sea ice extent by a >>>>> million square kilometers in a week and public interest was so high free >>>>> quota was exhausted 5 hours after reset. >>>>> >>>>> Now - end of August - it is absolutely clear that this year will or has >>>>> already broke all records in terms of sea ice minimum and makes a major >>>>> step >>>>> direction ice free-ness. When in a few years the Arctic lacks sea ice >>>>> completely in September, it will change weather pattern all over the >>>>> northern hemisphere - one explanation of accelerating public interests. >>>>> >>>>> I’d like to mention the project is ad free and totally beyond any >>>>> economic interests. All I want is to keep it running and give everybody on >>>>> the planet the chance to see with his own eyes how dramatic the situation >>>>> in >>>>> the Arctic is. True color satellite images are free of interpretation and >>>>> do >>>>> not lead to discussions whether there is sea ice or not. >>>>> >>>>> Here is the thing: If I enable billing to satisfy the need for pure >>>>> information I’m bankrupt next month. If not 99% of the users are going to >>>>> see nothing, get frustrated and possibly never come back. >>>>> >>>>> So my best option is to close the site now. >>>>> >>>>> What do you think? >>>>> >>>>> -- Torsten >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>> "Google App Engine" group. >>>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>>> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-appengine/-/OTYSfYfbDgoJ. >>>> >>>> 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 view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-appengine/-/z9jcS0stqjoJ. >> >> 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. 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