I am curious, why cannot you create a billing account? Is it because you are not able to provide a credit card? or is it because you are worried to be charged?
Note that you can set daily spending limits <https://cloud.google.com/appengine/pricing#spending_limit> or use the max_instance <https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/nodejs/config/appref#scaling_elements> setting to make sure you are not using more instances than the free tier. On Mon, Jul 9, 2018 at 11:00 PM PhistucK <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you for the update! > I switched to using Heroku for now (thankfully, my application had almost > no dependencies on App Engine or almost anything else, that it was a less > than half an hour job to switch providers. The only thing I really had to > do was to "re-implement" GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS and I plan to > move away from that as well soon), but I will be very glad to switch to App > Engine once it stops requiring a credit card. > I had a great experience with my other projects using Python (well, in > most of them. One completely broke when you removed the channel API and > never provided a replacement... Still waiting for that WebSocket support. > Fortunately, I was not using that project much in the last few years, so no > great harm done). > > ☆*PhistucK* > > > On Mon, Jul 9, 2018 at 5:51 PM 'Steren Giannini' via Google App Engine < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Indeed, for the moment, Node.js on App Engine Standard requires a billing >> account. This is because it directly uses Cloud Container Builder. >> But note that it has the same free tier as other Standard runtimes: >> Having a billing account does not mean you will have to pay for your >> project. >> >> We are working to see if we can lift this requirement, but no guarantee >> yet. >> >> Steren >> Product Manager >> App Engine >> >> >> >> >> On Sun, Jul 8, 2018 at 11:42 AM PhistucK <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> One of the major selling points, for me, anyway, of App Engine is that >>> you can create a project by choosing an ID and just roll. >>> You get a free quota to start your project, no credit card or anything >>> needed. >>> Of the 5 standard App Engine languages, however, only Node.js requires >>> enabling billing, which keeps me away from it for small projects. >>> The Node.js on standard announcement blog post did not mention this, I >>> was very unpleasantly surprised by this when I tried to finally deploy my >>> project. >>> >>> Is this restriction planned to be lifted soon? >>> >>> -- >>> 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 https://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/42c2127c-3667-4124-bfd6-ba637a7dadb4%40googlegroups.com >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/42c2127c-3667-4124-bfd6-ba637a7dadb4%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> -- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the >> Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. >> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/google-appengine/je8glguX_Yg/unsubscribe >> . >> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to >> [email protected]. > > >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. >> > To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/CANHKq5EGMnQDCLvs9sBfvN_HV994LAwQtF7VEM__L4L4YtAKCQ%40mail.gmail.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/CANHKq5EGMnQDCLvs9sBfvN_HV994LAwQtF7VEM__L4L4YtAKCQ%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . > > >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- > 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 https://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/CABc02_LJckP7-eVBqL%2B4QwZkqTZcStudVjh4sAJFhAO7DeJZiQ%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/CABc02_LJckP7-eVBqL%2B4QwZkqTZcStudVjh4sAJFhAO7DeJZiQ%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. 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