So why bother with App Engine at all. In so many ways it is soooo limited. Just move the whole lot to Amazon! I think App Engine is destined to become Google's Edsel.
On Feb 25, 9:36 am, peterk <peter.ke...@gmail.com> wrote: > What are your requirements? > > If you want media or large-file hosting..perhaps you could use > amazon's s3 to host your static files to overcome any bandwidth > limitations on GAE's end (if you need more than 740MB per minute)? I'm > assuming Amazon doesn't have rate limits or absolute bandwidth usage > limits. Once you factor out your static and media files, are you > really going to need more tham 740MB/minute of bandwidth? > > That said, 740MB/minute is over 12MB per second of bandwidth..that to > me sounds pretty decent given that many dedicated servers still offer > 10Mbit (1.25MB) connections to the internet! If GAE actually offers a > sustained >12MB/sec of bandwidth to your clients, on the face of it, > that seems pretty good? Am I missing something? > > For me, I'm more worried about request limits, so I plan to offload > all static requests to S3 in order to reserve my request quota and > bandwidth solely for the dynamic side of my app which will run on GAE. > A very large portion of my requests will be for 'small'' static files, > and it seems a waste to use GAE requests for those when they could be > put on s3 or cloudfront. > > The free quota revisions are unfortunate, but things are quite > scalable..once you're willing to pay, of course. But we always knew > we'd have to pay for more beyond the free quotas! They never suggested > scalability to the nth degree for free.. :) > > On Feb 25, 8:42 am, cc <c...@gamegiants.net> wrote: > > > It looks like the accountants at Google have taken over.... If you > > read over the new bandwidth quotes you will find that what was to be > > scalable is not so anymore: > > > Outgoing Bandwidth (adjustable, includes HTTPS) 10 GByte 56 > > MByte/ > > min 10 GByte free (plus budgeted adjustment up to 1046 GBytes/day) > > 740 MByte/min > > > 56 MByte/min 740 MByte/min wow talk about limited! > > > And don't forget to read all the way to the bottom of the page: > > > The new quota levels, which will take effect on May 25th, 2009, are: > > > * CPU Time: 6.5 hours of CPU time per day > > * Bandwidth: 1 Gigabyte of data transferred in and out of the > > application per day > > * Stored Data & Email Recipients: these quotas will remain > > unchanged. > > > These changes may also affect the fixed quotas applied to applications > > without billing enabled. Fixed quotas for applications with billing > > enabled will not be affected. > > > Bandwidth: 1 Gigabyte of data transferred in and out of the > > application per day > > > Your joking right? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
