Hey David, You can use App Engine for building a generic internet facing site. App Engine for Business seems to be targeting a different market segment, businesses running intranet type apps.
Robert On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 15:34, David Parks <davidpark...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Oh interesting. Maybe I'm mis-understanding google's intention here. I had > hoped to use app-engine to host a generic web-facing site. It seems like a > brilliant platform for that. But perhaps this is not a primary use case > considered by google? Or maybe that's what they mean by "users outside your > org would be billed differently", perhaps the whole concept is still in its > infancy. > > But even so, I would be surprised, because a 100 person intranet site > shouldn’t cost a small company $800 to host (surely a typical $40-$100 VPS > on any old hosting provider would be more than sufficient). > > Oh well, I guess the marketing execs have some work to do. :) > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: google-appengine@googlegroups.com > [mailto:google-appeng...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Geoffrey Spear > Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2010 1:22 AM > To: Google App Engine > Subject: [google-appengine] Re: Google apps engine for Business pricing Q > > My understanding that the the App Engine for Business offering you're > describing is intended for intranet applications, and that the user count > would be the number of users in your Google Apps domain. > There's no "free quota" because the applications aren't free in the first > place. As I understand it there's no quota system at all because the > business model is different than the "pay for what you use" model in normal > App Engine. (Although it may be reasonable to think you'd still have the > limits of the non-billable quotas, maybe at different levels, to prevent, > say, a 1-person "organization" from running some massive cluster computing > application in the cloud for super-cheap...) > > Applications intended to be used by users outside your organization would be > billed differently. > > On Oct 20, 12:33 pm, "David Parks" <davidpark...@yahoo.com> wrote: >> I'm looking at Google apps engine for Businesses, and in the pricing >> it >> says: >> >> Each application costs $8 per user, up to a maximum of $1000, per month. >> >> Can someone explain to me what a "user" is in this context? I can't >> find any explanation. Is this just the user that creates the app on >> appengine.google.com? Meaning $8 allows you to create up to 10 apps + >> billable usage over the free quota? Or is there no free quota on the >> business edition? > > -- > 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. > > -- > 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. > > -- 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.
