The minimum private memcache costs 12 cents a GB-hour, and 1 GB is the minimum you can specify. You pay for the entire gigabyte, even if you are only using 1/10 of it. So, it costs $2.88 a day, nearly $90 a month; instead of 30 cents a day. And it was free before Saturday.
This is ridiculous. It should be prorated and/or let you specify a much lower amount of memcache, like 100 Megs. This is a massive price increase which is forced on people because of the changes to shared memcached on Saturday. Bottom line -- GAE cannot be trusted. On Sunday, October 6, 2013 11:57:02 AM UTC-7, James Gilliam wrote: > > GAE has drastically changed the way MEMCACHE works; as a result my > application (ogeekcom) overall usage jumped by approximately 5 times with > the same approximate bandwidth output. Like a 400% increase in price. > > Specifically, they are purging shared memcache very aggressively -- > possible in an effort to force people to signup for paid memcache. > > As a result of this change, my application is using many more datastore > reads and many more instances to compensate for the poor memcache > performance. > > Like always, this was done without any announcement at all. > > If they made this change to increase make applications cost more to run, > it is illegal. > > There is no problem with them offering a premium service for memcache, but > it is illegal to degrade the previous service to force people into the paid > model. > > -- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
