It is interesting to ponder. The theory is that GAE lets us scale... but if it takes 100X the number of instances to process the same amount of traffic, who but Google could actually afford to scale? And 100X might not be unrealistic; a 16GB 8-core linode is down to $320/mo; an 8G 4-core instance backed by SSD from digitalocean is $80/mo. Compute power is becoming crazy cheap.
The compelling thing about GAE is that you can run without a devops team. That's worth a lot. But the price makes it not the obvious win that it seems like it should be. Jeff On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 4:41 AM, Claudio Antunes <[email protected]>wrote: > I think App Engine is very, very good, but it is very, very expensive. > Yesterday I was testing my application and I've did a comparison: > About 600,000 pageviews delivered, I paid US$ 35 to Google. > I'm using Frontend Instance Class F1 and 50 Max Idle Instances and 4.0s to > Min Pending Latency. > On my current hosting, VPS.NET <http://vps.net/>, I pay US$ 30 daily to > have 2 machines with 38.4GHz Dedicated CPU and 6152MB Dedicated RAM to > delivery my application. As I use it only 12 hours, I pay only US$ 15. > So App Engine Is very, but very, but very expensive. And if I enable the > Cloud SQL, it will be yet more expensive. > > There is anyway to reduce the price? > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
