I just wanted to add a +1 here. The issue for me is that 1 app = 1 domain. I would love to be able to map a domain (www.theclient.com) to a specific part of my app www.myapp.com/theclient. But it looks like I will have to duplicate my app and perhaps use multiple google accounts to do so. It seems dodgy to me as I doubt any instance of the app would exceed the free threshold but the sum of all apps would. Can I get some extra details on how people are handling this and/or how google will handle this.
On Jul 9, 4:35 pm, "Gregory D'alesandre" <gr...@google.com> wrote: > Hey Erik, I think you are referring to this section: > "4.4. You may not develop multiple Applications to simulate or act as a > single Application or otherwise access the Service in a manner intended to > avoid incurring fees." > > What you are doing is not being done to avoid incurring fees so it does not > violate our terms. We also need to build better support for this sort of > thing in the future as a number of people have asked for it. > > Hope that helps! > > Greg D'Alesandre > Senior Product Manager, Google App Engine > > > > > > > > On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 10:00 AM, Brandon Wirtz <drak...@digerat.com> wrote: > > I'm in the same boat. Google has let me get away with running the same app > > customized for the user. All of my apps are paid apps running on different > > domains. > > > I'm all for lobbying to get app reseller accounts where we can markup our > > services on the billing page. If you come up with a good way to get the > > billing information by API let me know because I'd like to have a better > > way > > to bill clients and generate usage reports. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: google-appengine@googlegroups.com > > [mailto:google-appengine@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Eric Kolotyluk > > Sent: Monday, July 04, 2011 9:56 AM > > To: Google App Engine > > Subject: [google-appengine] Multiple Instances of the Same App > > > I remember reading some policy that Google prohibits people people from > > basically running the same app under different registration. I gather one > > reason for this is so that people don't exploit the free nature of apps, or > > so that Google is not replicating essentially the same app everywhere. What > > ever the reason I don't want to violate Google's policies. > > > We have an app we want to develop for our customers, but we essentially > > want > > each customer to have their own instance of the app for quotas and billing > > purposes. Basically, if our customers want the service, they would pay > > Google directly, rather than us figuring out who uses what and billing our > > customers. It would also make it easy for our software to automatically > > create the customer's app on app engine and keep it up-to-date. > > > An alternative design would be to have some way to invoke a central app, > > but > > for service operations and quota have some way to bill things to a specific > > account. > > > Does Google have any way to do this that does not violate the policies? > > > The alternative for us is setting up a separate account for each customer > > on > > either Amazon, Microsoft, or some other cloud, and essentially giving each > > customer their own VM instance. There are pros and cons to this, as there > > are with using the Google PAAS, and I am trying to figure out what our best > > options are. > > > Cheers, Eric > > > -- > > 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. > > > -- > > 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. -- 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.
