What you are asking is more or less: "I have 5 things, how much do they cost?". Obviously that doesn't have a meaningful answer. Just the number of users is not going to give you an estimate. You need to get some rough numbers on these:
1) How many pages does each user views per day 2) What kind of requests do they do: simple page request with 1 fetch from the datastore? image manipulation? reporting pages that list hundreds of entities worth of data? 3) How many users are active? 4) How many users you have total? 4) How much data do you store per user? 5) Do you send lots of emails from the app? If so how many? 6) Do you upload data to the application? If so how much? 7) Do you fetch data from other websites to implement your service? If you look at the table: Outgoing Bandwidth gigabytes $0.12 Incoming Bandwidth gigabytes $0.10 CPU Time CPU hours $0.10 Stored Data gigabytes per month $0.15 Recipients Emailed recipients $0.0001 You can compute almost everything based on the above: Outgoing Bandwidth = Number of active users per day * Number of pages per user per day * size of page Outgoing Bandwidth = Number of active users per day * Number of pages per user per day * Ratio of pages served to pages fetched * size of fetched page CPU Time = Really depends on how complex each page is, can't even start estimating without any background on what the app does Stored Data = Number of users * data per user Recipients Emailed = Number of active users * Number of emails sent per user I think you should be able to come up with some very ballpark values for the above if you have some quasi-clear idea of an app in mind. On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 4:06 PM, mclovin <hanoo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hey guys, I hope this is allowed. > > I am in a business class and our project is like an e-commerce site. > One of the things that we have to report on is how much it will cost > to run the business. So I thought of Google App Engine, but when I > look at the pricing, I have no idea what I am looking at since it is > basically all in computing hours. > > I am pretty sure that it would be cheaper to deploy on google's > servers if this business was a startup since they would not have to > buy the several thousand dollars in equipment and more money in > bandwidth, but I would appreciate some hard numbers. > > On average (I know that it differs from web app to web app, but I just > need a broad ballpark figure), but how much on average does app engine > cost for > > 10k users > 100k users > 1million users > 5 million users > > ? > > Thank you > > > -- Alkis --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
