On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 6:01 PM, Tapir <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 1:48:10 AM UTC+8, barryhunter wrote: >> >> Apples to Oranges. >> >> DigitalOcean to Compute Engine would be a fairer comparison. They are >> both the same 'type' of product. >> >> >> AppEngine isn't a magic 'fit all' solution. Many types of applications >> you could very definitly run (much) cheaper elsewhere (particularly ones >> that are small enough to fit in a single VPS). >> >> But there certain types of applications that will be 'cheaper' on >> AppEngine (particularly when consider AppEngine is managed hosting). >> > > If the free quota provided by App Engine is not considered, I don't think > there are any types will be cheaper in App Engine. >
Imagine if your application was big enough, that it needed say 150 VPS's to run. Some of them running memcache, some running apache, some running elasticsearch, some running couchdb, some running haproxy, some running logging servers, some running management nodes. Warm redunacy servers. You could perhaps get that very cheap, but you would have to add the cost of building the system to orcestrate all those 'servers'. Both coding/developer time to right the tools. But also the system administrator type to maintain and monitori all those systems. You could use services like RightScale etc, to manage all those servers. But that adds another layer of fees and management. The raw 'hosting' may be cheap, but it doesnt consider all the management cost. > > I admit DigitalOcean is an alternative to GCE. But standing at the > position of Google, the comparison is not unfair. Google charges too > many for a low cost. > I'm not denying that AppEngine might be expensive, but you can't say that by just comparing a few numbers for a single VPS. There is a lot more to consider. A fairer comparson, would be some sort of managed hosting, something like http://www.rackspace.com/managed-hosting/dedicated-servers/pricing/ but that still doesnt consider everything. > > >> >> >> >> >> On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 5:38 PM, Tapir <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> DigitalOcean: 2.0GHz, 512MB RAM, 20GB SSD, 1TB Bandwidth for free. >>> $5/month >>> Google App Engine B4 Instance: 2.4GHz, 512MB, No Hard Disk, Bandwidth >>> needs extra money, $230/month >>> >>> 230/5 = 46! >>> >>> -- >>> 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. > -- 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.
