On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 7:14 PM, Tapir <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 3:04:25 AM UTC+8, barryhunter wrote: >> >> >>> >>> The comparison even doesn't count the 15 minutes tax explained by >>> BarryHunter in this thread: https://groups.google.com/ >>> forum/#!topic/google-appengine/dTIK9dJHdZI >>> and the bandwidth and other cost are included in the $45,000 for Linode >>> VPS case. >>> >>> >> >> Thats on used counted each time an instance shuts down. If you have one >> instance alive all day, serving 1 request/second all day, you will never >> pay the 'tax' (well rarely) >> >> Get similar thing on other providers, eg digitalocean appear to charge >> by the hour, so if you only use an instance for 15 minutes, you still pay >> for the full hour. >> > > better than if you only use an instance for one second, you still pay for > 15 minutes. :) >
If going to get that petty, then surly its best to only pay 15 minutes overhead, than 59 minutes overhead. > > >> >> If you have 'bursty' traffic it can be more noticeable, than if you have >> pretty constant traffic (few start/stops) >> > > If GAE instance scheduler does ideally, I would support your opinion. > But in fact, the GAE instance scheduler often try to create unnecessary > instances and is not willing to use the already created idle > resident instances. > That is in part at least deliberate. As soon as the instance serves up a request, its no longer idle, and so a new instance is spun up, so it can return to being idle. Idle instances are to catch new spikes in traffic, not steady traffic. > > > -- > 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.
