Agreed. As I said, "Shame on me."
On Feb 25, 10:27 pm, Josh Cronemeyer <joshuacroneme...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> I'm not saying you shouldn't be complainin, because lots of us were
> surprised by the new "official" quota numbers and the new accounting, but I
> will say that you certainly undertook a big risk by investing in a
> technology as new and raw as app engine. Given the limitations and concerns
> in your email I wouldn't have recommended you to set sail with the first
> group of settlers to the far shores of google's nacent cloud computing
> offering. Maybe you should have held off to see if we all got swallowed up
> by sea monsters. Good luck!
>
> On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 8:12 PM, B.J. <bjp...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I don't know that I have ever whined at an organization like Google
> > for trying to make money.
>
> > That's changing with this message.
>
> > By my calculations, it could cost me $1000 over the next year to host
> > my app that I had anticipated being hosted under the quotas. It may
> > cost me nothing.... right now our usage is just under the daily CPU
> > limits. If the traffic doesn't grow, no problem But whose goal is it
> > for an app not to get more usage?
>
> > My only real gripe is that App Engine caused me to invest a lot of
> > effort in shoe-horning my app into the "Google Way". I did that with
> > the understanding that the trade-off was a certain amount of free
> > hosting. Was that a promise? Of course not. Is Google under any
> > obligation to meet my expectation? No.
>
> > However, as I attempt to further optimize the application in an effort
> > to not exceed limits, the future of the application is now in
> > question. This is not a profit deal. I gave away my time in an
> > effort to help an organization. Had I known this change was coming, I
> > probably would have chosen a different solution. Because of the
> > "vendor lock-in" of App Engine, the end result of all this may be
> > simply turning the app off and letting the organization do without.
> > (or find someone else to help them out.) Better that than hit daily
> > free limits or find money out of someone's pocket.
>
> > Look $1000/year is not a big deal for world-class hosting. I get it.
> > I also understand that the free quotas are only there to get people
> > "hooked" such as it were. I guess I wish had listened to those who
> > said, "Don't do App Engine. They'll lock you in and change the deal.
> > It's not portable enough."
>
> > Shame on me, I guess.
>
> > And before people chime in with all the, "You could always move it
> > to...", or "If you had just written it this way... " or "It's a
> > business, of course they're trying to get you to go over the limits.."
> > please.... don't.
>
> > This is just a note to let the people at Google know there is a very
> > real cost to changing the deal on people.
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