On Saturday, February 22, 2014 2:31:53 PM UTC+8, timh wrote: > > So based on a running cost less than 3% of revenue, then this app is > REALLY REALLY REALLY cheap. >
Sorry, 3% is just the average value for the hosting world. It is not cheap at all, it is just general. I know many websites the much lower value than 3%. > > I don't have true pageviews because as I said its 80% ajax transactions, > so new template rendering etc.... so not a comparable measure. But just to > please you on a typical day there is around 2200 pageviews , but between 5 > and 10 times that in terms of ajax transactions (which aren't monitored by > analytics), but to be honest it's not something I really monitor closely as > it not particularly important. > Ok, you have 10,000 requests. $2 per day means you need 48 F1 instance hours. I know you don't like the advertisement. But GAE official never says GAE is not capable for this model. 2200 pageviews means about $3 advertisement revenue. If there is no the free hours, you would pay google $5. The net profit is -$2. (ok, ok, I know you are a rich man, you get a better model. Here, I just descript the situation from the view of common sense) > > Unless you compare features of a service, meeting a minimal base line for > comparison any comparison is meaningless. You know apples and oranges. > > I run another site that derives absolutely no direct revenue, it is their > solely to get get people to visit a bricks and motor shop, and the $2 a day > that is costing > is very cheap as all the advertising we run is Adwords (adwords is > expensive) and the site running costs. Yes I could run it on Digital Ocean > or AWS small instance for probably cheaper, but then I have to look after > infrastructure webstack/database, I do not have the time or inclination to > do that. So my measure of cheap is completely different to yours. > I certainly don't measure the cost or quality of the service or the value > of the outcomes in terms of pageviews per dollar (at least not directly) > > So I am not really going to bother with this discussion any more, in your > opinion GAE is not cheap, in my opinion by all the metrics that I am > interested and the applications I run/develop on appengine it is. Does this > mean I would run all new projects on appengine - absolutely not, I would > pick the best (as much as I could) tool for the job. > What the data all you provide exactly prove GAE is expensive! Your sense is not a typical common sense. Bill Gates will still think GAE is cheap if the F1 instance is charged with $1000 per day. -- 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.
