Remember AppEngine is a 'shared' environment - lots of apps are all using a slice of the same resources.
Would you rather that someone (maliciously or simply though ignorance) monopolizes all the resources (even if they are paying) and that brings your app (though no fault of your own) to a standstill. Its also possible to say that by being 'restricted' by quotes forces the application developer to be creative and build applications to scale well. One approach to scaling is just throwing bigger servers at the problem which works to a point but is expensive, the other is to throw more machines at the problem, but this often creates engineering effort to make it work across a distributed system. AppEngine is a distributed system from the start - so it will scale easily if you design with that in mind. Most hosting platforms are not distributed so a usually easier to get going. I speak from a website (not on appengine) which is undergoing the pains of scaling, and now realise that imposing limits actually benefits the stability of the whole system. Also AppEngine comes from the experience of Google that obviously very experienced in building applications at Internet scale. On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 2:29 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I really don't understand why Google focuses so much effort on > implementing quotas than adding more features. I hope i can break out > of the quota system if I pay. Or is this some evil i will have to live > with forever?. Then I would rather move now to Amazon or Microsoft. - > "tired beta user whose app starts breaking randomly due to quotas". > > > > -- Barry - www.nearby.org.uk - www.geograph.org.uk - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
