Hey Keakon, Hope you don't leave the App Engine community completely. You seem to be a good developer, and you've been a good member of the community by helping others and participating in discussions.
Robert On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 02:08, keakon lolicon <kea...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > I've used Google App Engine for more than 2.5 years. I suffered a hard time > to read the English documents, articles and the SDK source code. I thought I > knew it very well, but now I find I was wrong. > It was a great platform to build either small or big web services, but I > believe it won't be a good choice under the new price for both of them. > I think Google will earn most money from the big apps, so let's talk about > it first. > For the big ones, they must use multiple instances. Each instance charges > $0.04 * 24 * 30 = $28.8/month. It's no doubt that you can buy much powerful > VPS with these money, and you are unlikely be charged for any other fees > like network transport, database, etc. > I know Google saves us time of building these service API and maintaining > the platform, but it's not worth charging them for each instance. > Then the small ones. > I would like to talk about my own blog hosting in GAE. I wrote every line of > it's code and spent much time on optimizing it. > Under the old price, I can keep it free even if it gains 20x traffic (about > 200k PVs) than now. But switching to the new one, I'm already have to pay > for it $0.01 ~ $0.02 each day, and at least $9 per month. > I'm surprised how would this happen, then I found Google played a trick on > the datastore operations. > Say I need fetch all of my tags. It's just a simple query, only takes less > than 1 CPU second to fetch about 50 entities, I can do it 6.5 * 3600 = 23400 > times per day. > But under the new price, it's considered as 50 Datastore Reads operations, I > can only do it 50k / 50 = 1000 times per day. > Without memcache, the free quota will be used up in less than 500 PVs (I > also need fetch articles, comments, etc.). Though I have used memcache very > aggressively, I have no way to handle 10k PVs within the free quota since > the memcache often loses the cached data. > I remembered the birthday of GAE, Google said we could build an app to > server 5 million PVs per month for free. After 2 major price increasing, > Google makes it leave preview, and is making us leave it. > I still want to say thanks to GAE, I learned Python, the most wonderful > language I have seen, because of you. I wish I was the one who made a wrong > decision. > ---------- > keakon > My blog(Chinese): www.keakon.net > Blog source code: https://bitbucket.org/keakon/doodle/ > > -- > 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.
