It is simple and very cheap platform for starup. When project will grow - it can be optimised or migrate - GAE have very simple API and it can emulate very simple on VDS, amazon or shared hosting.
2011/9/16 Strom <xxst...@gmail.com> > I agree with pretty much everything you said. > > On Sep 15, 11:53 pm, JH <ja...@mhztech.com> wrote: > > When first seeing the new pricing I was very upset. From watching > > this group I wasn't the only one. However, at the risk of angering > > some I'd like to report my findings. > > > > When first seeing the new pricing my first idea was to change > > providers. Not only to save some money, but also in fear of the fact > > that GAE may very well be over in 3 years with so many others leaving > > due to the new pricing. > > > > So my first stop was AWS. With so much buzz surrounding aws plus so > > many companies using it they must be a great product. However you > > have to be careful to look under the covers. > > > > GAE is a PaaS. That's why I love GAE. Everything is taken care of > > for you. However some of the tasks are not that hard so for now we > > won't factor that into the price. > > > > AWS has micro instances available for a pretty cheap price. But, > > that's not all you need. You need a datastore. So you either run it > > on your micro instance, using a good chunk of resources or you pay for > > RDS/SimpleDB. So if we choose simpleDB (GAE made everyone fall in > > love with NoSQL) you now have 2 products to pay for. What about > > memcache? Well AWS just introduced Elasticache. Another bill, and > > not a cheap one I might add. What about map reduce? That will be an > > additional fee. And I'm not going to get into scaling as I really > > don't personally need it. But for a fee AWS has elastic load > > balancers... > > > > So let's stick with PaaS. Heroku sounds good. They are suppose to be > > getting python soon! 1 web dyno + 1 worker dyno + 20 gig of shared > > database storage = $50/month. Wowsers! What about cron? That will > > be $3/month. Memcache can run $20-$3500 / month! These guys charge > > you for everything! So many of these things are included with GAE. > > > > What about dotcloud? Well their first paid tier starts at $99/month. > > > > So I'm not out to anger the community. I realize everyone's app is > > different and some people's bills have gone up 100x, etc. I just > > wanted to point out that finding a better deal may not be so easy. I > > really hope that people stay on GAE as I hope it can continue to run > > for many more years. > > > > Oh yeah, not to mention what a cool platform this is to develop on. > > Task queues, cron, deployments, memcache, logging (I forgot to mention > > that Heroku charges for logging). And it's all managed for you. No > > need to wake up at 2am because your server is down. Or your mysql > > table is corrupt... I'm just saying. > > -- > 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. > > -- С уважением, Кулин Тимофей. Телефон: +7 (4852) 974793 ICQ: 114902104 email: timo...@koolin.ru Blog: http://timofey.koolin.ru -- 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.
