Hi AppEngine Team! I know you've spent significant time and energy in coming up with your new pricing model. But I hope that even though you've already announced your new proposed pricing changes, you would still be open to a suggestion.
You see, I'm really wondering why we can't be charged for exactly what we use. How about letting us pay for the total time our requests take? Like if I had 1,000,000 requests in a day, and each one averaged at around 100ms each, then I'd end up paying for 27.778 hours (you can make a new price per hour for this unit), irregardless of how many instances were used to process those requests. IMHO, the current pricing changes doesn't seem to put a real burden on you (Google) to provide a highly efficient scheduler. I think it even "tempts" you to make it not so efficient so that we end up paying for more. You could be placed in a spot where your "Don't be Evil" motto could be questioned. I think we're all not comfortable with that. However, if we pay for what we actually use (not in CPU time, but in latency/real ms consumed for each request), developers like me won't have to worry whether or not your scheduler is actually working optimally for me or not, because the burden is on you to save on cost by provisioning and taking down instances efficiently. You can even abstract this whole instances factor from us, which gives us one less factor to consider, and we can focus more on optimizing our apps towards lower latencies. IMHO, this seems to be a more WIN-WIN scenario. What do you think? -- 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.
