Is there some way to get google bot requests to go to a dedicated back end?

On Sep 3, 2011, at 3:35 PM, Brandon Wirtz wrote:

> The biggest Problem I have with the Scheduler/GAE isn’t GAE it is Google Bot.
>  
> Under the new model you are on the hook for 15 minutes of time for an 
> instance that spins up.  Google Bot can’t be throttled on GAE.  If you go in 
> to WebMasters Tools you get a “Your site has been assigned a special crawl 
> rate”.  This was my favorite feature when I was paying for CPU cycles, but 
> now when Google bot shows up and makes upwards of 100k requests in 5 minutes 
> every 6 hours, Google Bot will be accounting for about 85% of the cost of 
> hosting on several of the sites that have less than $50 a month in hosting 
> costs under the current plan, that will be paying about $400 a month to serve 
> requests to Google come November Pricing.
>  
> -Brandon
>  
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