I monetize quite a few of my applications with Adsense, GAE Drastically lowered my hosting costs on the old billing, and since moving to Python 2.7 they are in check for the new billing as well. If I could have old billing and 2.7 I'd be really excited... but 2.7 brings my costs inline with what I had anticipated post beta to look like.
-Brandon -----Original Message----- From: google-appengine@googlegroups.com [mailto:google-appengine@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Alex Epshteyn Sent: Friday, September 23, 2011 10:59 AM To: Google App Engine Cc: appengine_updated_pric...@google.com Subject: [google-appengine] Another perspective on the upcoming datastore prices Consider an average dynamic page in any web application. It might do one entity write and fetch a small result set. Under the new GAE billing model, this might cost 25 Write Ops, and 21 Read Ops (a pretty conservative estimate). Those amount to ~ $40 per million page views, which is more than the average revenue from Google AdSense for the same million pageviews! There's something really wrong with this picture. The reason AdSense does so well is that web hosting in this day and age costs a lot less than what AdSense earns. But now GAE hosting is about to cost much more than what AdSense earns (and so far I only counted just the datastore ops, so the true costs might be 2-3x higher than $40 per million pageviews). The bottom line: developers will be losing money by hosting an ad- supported application on GAE! What's going on here? Google App Engine was supposed to be more cost- effective than the alternatives, but these new prices seem to be totally out of whack with the reality of current web economics. To the management at Google who came up with these prices: please consider consulting the AdSense team before these prices go into effect! -- 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.
