On Wednesday, September 7, 2011 9:40:12 AM UTC+3, renderpaz wrote: > > From the looks of your data, it doesn't seem you have any need for a > massively scaling web host. Why did you choose GAE in the first > place? > > If your answer is, "One day I may need to handle 1000 qps" - then I > think the pricing is perfectly fair, you can almost view it as > insurance. Note, i'm saying the price is fair, not the increase. I > can understand your frustration with Google's handling of this, but > that doesn't mean they should make the service unsustainable. > > I'd assume that for the majority the answer is not the one you are suggesting but rather:
1/ simplicity of deployment 2/ curiosity 3/ the free tier/quota And I'd also assume the frustration is the result of the following facts: 1/ people finding the pricing increase unreasonable (while usually subjective, please note that I'm referring to the increase and not the price itself) 2/ the short notice compared to how long GAE has been in beta. I don't think we'd be seeing these reactions if Google would have announced the new pricing becoming active end of 2011. 4 months would have been enough for a lot of us to rethink our applications, optimize, find alternative solutions. But how much of that can you do on such a short notice? (Aug.31st vs mid-Sept). I'm tempted to speculate for the 3rd time here and say that it looks like Google's decision is based on analyzing three major use cases: 1. large paying customers: the alternatives for them would be more expensive and adding to that the costs of migration, the majority of them will just have to accept the new pricing 2. small paying customers: between finding similarly priced alternatives and being offline until they complete the migration, the majority of them will just have to accept the new pricing. Even if some of them will leave in the next 3-6 months, the revenue generated from the new pricing is equivalent with having them as customers for 12-15months. 3. very small paying customers/free quota customers: their decision is pretty irrelevant. If some of them stay then they'll generate some revenue. If they leave then there's a cost cut. As James, I'm one of those very small paying customers/free quota customers where the price increase is unaffordable (in my case I'm going from a couple of bucks/month to $645/month). A:// -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-appengine/-/LxUO4Blay5YJ. 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.
