Hi, Quote (Eric Kolotyluk <eric.ko...@gmail.com> wrote) :
We have an app we want to develop for our customers, but we essentially want > each customer to have their own instance of the app for quotas and billing > purposes. Basically, if our customers want the service, they would pay > Google directly, rather than us figuring out who uses what and billing our > customers. It would also make it easy for our software to automatically > create the customer's app on app engine and keep it up-to-date. Quote (Gregory D'alesandre <gr...@google.com> wrote) : What you are doing is not being done to avoid incurring fees so it does not > violate our terms. We also need to build better support for this sort of > thing in the future as a number of people have asked for it. Quote (Gary Frederick <g...@jsoft.com> wrote) : yep (how we say +1 in Texas) Is there an issue we can star to show we are interested? Yes, there is now a feature request which you can star to show you are interested. Check out : Marketplace for Google App Engine apps<http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=5821> . Thanks & Regards, Raj On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 12:05 PM, Gregory D'alesandre <gr...@google.com>wrote: > Hey Erik, I think you are referring to this section: > "4.4. You may not develop multiple Applications to simulate or act as a > single Application or otherwise access the Service in a manner intended to > avoid incurring fees." > > What you are doing is not being done to avoid incurring fees so it does not > violate our terms. We also need to build better support for this sort of > thing in the future as a number of people have asked for it. > > Hope that helps! > > Greg D'Alesandre > Senior Product Manager, Google App Engine > > > On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 10:00 AM, Brandon Wirtz <drak...@digerat.com>wrote: > >> I'm in the same boat. Google has let me get away with running the same >> app >> customized for the user. All of my apps are paid apps running on >> different >> domains. >> >> I'm all for lobbying to get app reseller accounts where we can markup our >> services on the billing page. If you come up with a good way to get the >> billing information by API let me know because I'd like to have a better >> way >> to bill clients and generate usage reports. >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: google-appengine@googlegroups.com >> [mailto:google-appengine@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Eric Kolotyluk >> Sent: Monday, July 04, 2011 9:56 AM >> To: Google App Engine >> Subject: [google-appengine] Multiple Instances of the Same App >> >> I remember reading some policy that Google prohibits people people from >> basically running the same app under different registration. I gather one >> reason for this is so that people don't exploit the free nature of apps, >> or >> so that Google is not replicating essentially the same app everywhere. >> What >> ever the reason I don't want to violate Google's policies. >> >> We have an app we want to develop for our customers, but we essentially >> want >> each customer to have their own instance of the app for quotas and billing >> purposes. Basically, if our customers want the service, they would pay >> Google directly, rather than us figuring out who uses what and billing our >> customers. It would also make it easy for our software to automatically >> create the customer's app on app engine and keep it up-to-date. >> >> An alternative design would be to have some way to invoke a central app, >> but >> for service operations and quota have some way to bill things to a >> specific >> account. >> >> Does Google have any way to do this that does not violate the policies? >> >> The alternative for us is setting up a separate account for each customer >> on >> either Amazon, Microsoft, or some other cloud, and essentially giving each >> customer their own VM instance. There are pros and cons to this, as there >> are with using the Google PAAS, and I am trying to figure out what our >> best >> options are. >> >> Cheers, Eric >> >> -- >> 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. >> >> > -- > 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. > -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Build online database applications, over Google App Engine. iFreeTools Creator - http://creator.ifreetools.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. 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