On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 9:47 AM, Wilson MacGyver <wmacgy...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I understand people are upset about GAE pricing, but let's not pretend > this is as easy as > 1: sign up for amazon, 2: setup 3 instances in amazon east, 3: webscale :)
Part of the problem is that there is a distinct difference between GAE frontends and GAE backends. GAE frontends may or may not be overpriced - certainly they provide compelling benefits WRT scalability, fault tolerance, access to services, etc. GAE backends, on the other hand, are clearly overpriced. They provide little benefit over a server instance in AWS or rackspacecloud or linode, and they cost 5X as much. The best argument you can make for backends is that they have direct access to the GAE APIs, but you can easily enough proxy those calls from outside. Jeff -- 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.
