You know what'd be cool (and forgive me if this already exists)? An app framework that could load custom "plugin" modules, so one AppEngine app could run multiple back end style tasks at the same time, from different developers. Then a customer could pay their $9/month for the app, and plug in as many modules as required. Lots of commercial apps have a model similar to the OP (sell a lot of times, very cheaply, to many many customers) and are being affected by the $9/month minimum, so something like this would let them be pooled together.
On 9 November 2011 21:57, Emlyn <emlynore...@gmail.com> wrote: > Would it be cheaper to run it as a single multitenancy app? > > On 9 November 2011 20:35, Daniel Florey <daniel.flo...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi, >> we are running a tool on App Engine that allows users to sync GMail contacts >> between different Google / Google Apps accounts. >> https://www.google.com/enterprise/marketplace/viewListing?productListingId=2083+12830481423215493060 >> >> We make a dedicated deploy to app engine for each customer (company) so that >> each client has full control over the datastore permissions etc. >> Right now we have ~2000 instances running on GAE. A lot of these companies >> switched to Google Apps after evaluating our tool that gives them missing >> core functionality. >> >> Each client pays between 50€ (small enterprises) and 200€ (large >> enterprises) for our tool and is also in charge for handling the app engine >> costs. >> Most of the small businesses (non-profits or enterprises with very few >> people) have been able to run the app within the free quota. >> When exceeding the quota they have been charged a few cents per day on top >> for the resources consumed. >> After the price change I received hundreds of support requests / complaints >> in the last two days because people where running out of quota as the apps >> have been shut down. >> Our clients may be willing to pay the additional resources required, but >> most of them will not be able to pay $9 / month which by far exceeds the >> costs of our tool. >> This would increase the total cost from 50€/year to at least 150€/year for >> even the smallest companies. >> So what killing our business is not the new quota (we have spent a lot of >> effort to optimize the resources consumption with good results) it is the >> minimum fee of $9 / month. >> Any ideas how to handle this? >> Thanks, >> Daniel >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Google App Engine" group. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-appengine/-/thg1JWk6R7kJ. >> 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. >> > > > > -- > Emlyn > > http://my.syyn.cc - Synchonise Google+, Facebook, WordPress and Google > Buzz posts, > comments and all. > http://point7.wordpress.com - My blog > Find me on Facebook and Buzz > -- Emlyn http://my.syyn.cc - Synchonise Google+, Facebook, WordPress and Google Buzz posts, comments and all. http://point7.wordpress.com - My blog Find me on Facebook and Buzz -- 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.
