Although I was ignoring the $9/app discussion before, now I realize that* I want N environments as I develop my app: development, production, test, beta,* etc. And, I would like* all those environments to be identical to my production environment (ie: all be "paid" apps)*. Thus, to develop properly the cost is N x $9/month. I'm not enthusiastic about paying for paid app service level when most of these environments don't need that level of service. Yet, I don't want to "discover" that there is a difference between 'free' and 'paid' when I finally upload to my production environment.
Paying a little to keep spammy apps away is ok, but I think the payment policy should be focused on the person paying the bill and not the apps that they generate. In fact, I would go further and say that google should really* encourage developers to get on the highest service level early in the development process. * In particular, always-on and high replication data should be encouraged at the prototype stage so developers can feel how fast their apps will be and ... and so* we can imagine what we can do with that enhanced capability!! "Appengine developers that pay"* is a market niche that google should really give incentives to so we can build and evangelize the platform! In contrast, right now with the current fee structure, I'm on the free tier and waiting each time my prototype is called as the instance is loaded ... I could pay for always-on but I feel a little silly doing that when the prototype is just for me -- the incentives are not aligned correctly... Dennis -- 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.
