Oh wow, you're absolutely right. Going back to the billing on the 4th of September (after I changed Max Idle Instances and before I made any code changes), I was already seeing the full price drop. So, I didn't need to make the changes to spread out my tasks; that dropped the blue line down, but I don't pay for the blue line.
So optimisation is even easier than I thought. Gerald, I'll quote you in an update to my post, if you're ok with that. On 11 September 2011 02:04, Gerald Tan <woefulwab...@gmail.com> wrote: > Nice blog Emlyn. > > The reason why your Frontend Instance hours are lower than you expected is > because you assumed that you will be billed for the area under the BLUE line > in the Instance graph. It's not. You are being billed for the area under the > YELLOW line (Active Instance) PLUS your Max Idle Instance setting. So your > Active Instances is hovering at around ~0.72, and I assume you have set your > application's Max Idle Instance to 1. Therefore ~1.72 * 24 = ~41.28 Instance > Hours > > -- > 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/-/dWoTZKzCy7kJ. > 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. > -- Emlyn http://my.syyn.cc - Synchonise Google+, Facebook, WordPress and Google Buzz posts, comments and all. http://point7.wordpress.com - My blog Find me on Facebook and Buzz -- 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.
