Anyoneone from AppEngine has an answer as to when/if they allow reserved hours for backends? We use B4 instances and it's a big cost for us. Didn't realize the reserved hours affected ONLY FE instances. All my backend instance hours are charged at normal rate.
On Monday, December 5, 2011 7:27:53 PM UTC-8, Waleed wrote: > > In billing, I can pre-commit to X instance hours for the week and I get a > discounted price, $0.05 per hour as opposed to $0.08. So far so good. > > Recently, I've been moving my tasks and cron jobs to backend instances so > that there is a clean separation between what needs to execute right away > and what can wait. But then I realized that backend instances don't use the > pre-committed hours. So I end up paying $0.08 per hour for B1 backend > instances rather than $0.05. > > It seems that backend instances are a bad deal, and I should move > things back to front-end instances to benefit from the discounted price! Am > I missing something? > > Waleed > > -- 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/-/DhM5CXNfZXcJ. 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.
