Hi, I just disabled the "always on" option for my QA application, wanting to experiment with the new pricing model. Instead, I set the max-idle to 1, and I defined a 300ms latency in the application settings. The QA box is rarely used, but since the Cron-Jobs keep running every 5 minutes to clean up stuff, there was always some base load.
I checked out the stats, and it turns out there was always one instance up in the past 24 hours, and the currently active instance is 11h old. That's perfect for me: the less instance restarts we have, the faster the app will react (since startup takes some 5 to 10 seconds). Overall, this QA box cost me a mere 1ct under the new pricing. Great news! Is this too good to be true? When App Engine started out, new instances got killed after 60seconds, and it was officially prohibited to ping instances to keep it alive. Will that happen again? Or is it fine to consume the free 1 instance permanently? Cheers, Per -- 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.
