There should be a GAE Legal Defense Fund to represent people when GAE acts inappropriately. I am totally dependent on GAE for my business and I suspect many other people are as well. What GAE has done with MEMCACHE is wrong imo and we need somebody to call them out on this formally. What they did was a wholesale price increase by reducing the function of shared memcache, literally forcing people like me to opt for the paid premium version. The operative word here is "forcing" which is coercion in my view.
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.
