Hello all, I'd like your opinions on the reality of App Engine scalability. I'm not so concerned about the the high end, since I'm nowhere near creating a substantial amount of traffic. In fact, I'm just starting out at the bottom, and that seems to be a problem with the system. Today I looked at my logs and found that 90/200 transactions resulted in cold starts... Mind you, this is from a service that's basically running a cron job once a minute (site isn't launched yet, so all its doing are some very light cleanup jobs)
Is app engine capable of accommodating the business of small guys who are looking to start out at low volumes, or is the service only really conducive to high volumes? I looked at the status page, and it said that datastore is still in the suck, but nothing relating to any other server issues. If 45% of my traffic is going to result in cold starts, then I might as well give up with app engine now. If a transaction is 4/5's startup and 1/5 doing work, I can't justify the service's initially appealing affordability. I might as well just rent out my own fully fledged JVM that I at least have some measure of control over for LESS money. In general I've been very fond of the idea that App Engine would suit my business needs, but the more I use it in development, the more and more I find that it'll either cost much more (not related to anything my code), or it'll have a high time penalty for users. (Note: Xposted from AppEngineJava. Sorry for the dupe, but this I should have posted it here anyways) -- 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-appeng...@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.
