On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 3:35:40 AM UTC+8, barryhunter wrote: > > > > > On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 7:21 PM, Tapir <[email protected] <javascript:>>wrote: > >> >> >> On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 3:18:24 AM UTC+8, barryhunter wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 7:01 PM, Tapir <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 2:50:11 AM UTC+8, barryhunter wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 6:34 PM, Tapir <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> If my website needs 150 VPS's to run, I would NEVER consider using >>>>>> GAE at all! >>>>>> Assume the 150 VPS's are the lowest end Linode VPS, which is more >>>>>> powerful than GAE B8 instance type. >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> But it wouldn't need 150 GAE front end instances. Those VPS's are >>>>> having to emulate all the parts of the AppEngine Stack. >>>>> >>>>> You wouldnt need to dedicate any instances, to be a load balancer >>>>> (comes free with AppEngine). Wouldnt need any for memcache (again there >>>>> is >>>>> a free version). Wouldn't need any to run couchdb (have the datastore). >>>>> >>>> >>>> The datastore is not free on GAE. >>>> >>> >>> Never said it was. >>> >>> Just saying you dont need to dedicate 'instance's to host a database. >>> >> >> This should not be the cause for an arbitrary high price. >> > > It isn't, on its own. > > > You need to think bigger. > > If you are going to attempt to make a price comparsion, need to look at > the bigger picture, not just focus on one (or a few) arbitrary matrics. >
It is. Cconsidering there are so many limits on GAE, considering the the every part of the big picture will still charge you extra money., it is very fair to compare a VPS with a GAE instance. The result is so clear that less powerful pure computing unit (gae instance) charges much than a more powerful computing unit + storage + bandwidth. > > > > -- 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.
