Hi Alex, On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 3:58 AM, Alex Epshteyn <alexander.epsht...@gmail.com > wrote:
> 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). > How did you compute these figures? You say they're 'conservative', but these are really quite high. 25 write ops for one entity write implies quite a lot of custom indexes, and 21 read ops implies you're fetching 20 datastore entities - which isn't likely to be the case on anything other than a listing type page. On top of that, a scalable app should be using memcache and caching headers, meaning most requests don't encounter this cost at all. -Nick Johnson > > 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. > > -- Nick Johnson, Developer Programs Engineer, App Engine -- 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.
