Hi Alex, It was mostly in jest - AppEngine really is a great service. Just imagine how much better it would be (especially for AppEngine-Java) if the sharp edges could be smoothed a bit?
Ryan On Friday, February 15, 2013 11:47:00 PM UTC+2, alex wrote: > > Ryan, > > I hope you actually meant your message to be a big joke. From the > point I'm standing at, there's no other platform that can beat App > Engine today in terms of completeness, easiness of development and > deployment, autoscailing feature, extra services/APIs and stuff like > Cloud Endpoints. > > If you want a VM or a comparison to EC2, you should really do it with > GCE, not App Engine. > > On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 9:10 PM, Ryan Chazen <[email protected]<javascript:>> > wrote: > > With the kind of issues AppEngine has - high prices, random bad > performance, > > limited features (no sockets, etc), no support, java instance startup > times, > > routing new requests to instances that haven't started yet, incredibly > small > > VMs - I think the humour is probably on Google's side also. AppEngine > must > > be a big joke to someone there! > > > > > > On Friday, February 15, 2013 7:13:10 AM UTC+2, Sam wrote: > >> > >> Couldn't agree more with the humour part. > >> But seriously, there's real need for reasonably priced (actual) high > >> memory instances. > >> > >> > >> On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 2:17 AM, pdknsk <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> > >>> > High Memory Instances > >>> > >>> :) > >>> > >>> That's some humor right there. > >>> > >>> http://cloud.google.com/pricing/compute-engine > >>> > >>> "High Memory" > >>> > >>> 13 GB > >>> ... > >>> 52 GB > >>> > >>> http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/ > >>> > >>> "High-Memory Instance" > >>> > >>> 17.1 GB > >>> ... > >>> 64.8 GB > >>> > >>> -- > >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups > >>> "Google App Engine" group. > >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an > >>> email to [email protected]. > >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > >>> > >>> Visit this group at > >>> http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > >>> > >>> > >> > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups > > "Google App Engine" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an > > email to [email protected] <javascript:>. > > To post to this group, send email to > > [email protected]<javascript:>. > > > Visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
