I am, and I'll read if I have an NDA to honor before providing details. That said, if you look through the archives you can find screen shots where 90% of my CPU usage comes in the form of API calls, so my concurrency is not likely to be typical compared to most other users.
-----Original Message----- From: google-appengine@googlegroups.com [mailto:google-appengine@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Alex Epshteyn Sent: Friday, September 23, 2011 2:05 PM To: google-appengine@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [google-appengine] Another perspective on the upcoming datastore prices How do you know what your costs will be with Python 2.7, Brandon? I don't believe it is available yet, so are you using it as a "trusted tester"? If so, I'd be curious to know how many concurrent threads you can get per instance with Python 2.7. On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 4:50 PM, Brandon Wirtz <drak...@digerat.com> wrote: > 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. > > -- 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.
