A plain simple calculation: Let's say you move one of your apps to Rackspace. I find their pricing more "friendly" than e.g. AWS when you need an instance running 24/7. So, you'll end up paying a little more than 20$ just for a "512 MB Linux Server Instance". I'm not counting a load balancer, DB backend, memcache, maintenance, monitoring and other costs associated with the whole thing here. AWS would charge you even more.
A "512 MB Linux Server Instance" is not enough in 99% of the cases (unless this is a "I made it only for myself" app) 9 USD/month sound like a very much reasonable price to me, considering it includes all I described above (much more actually) . They say there are 1M+ apps running on GAE. Well, let's just take a half of that. It's 500k apps x 9 USD, about 5M USD Google would give up each month just because, you know, it's cool to offer 100% free service? The fact that Google charges those money kinda makes me feel they do care about GAE and it's future as a public PaaS. Please, correct me if I'm too far from the reality in those numbers. On Wednesday, March 28, 2012 6:14:51 PM UTC+2, Felix E. Klee wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 5:48 PM, Gregory D'alesandre <gr...@google.com> > wrote: > > It is part of the reason we can offer so many free services. > > Those free services... Just look at my toy projects on App Engine. In > the past they cost only when there was a lot of traffic. Now they cost > ca. 9 USD/month. Each one! At least those projects I would like to > migrate away. But that's a different issue. > > > Now that we have answered the meta-question about the question, what > > was the actual question? > > It's a question about billing, which became only relevant due to the > switch to the new pricing model. I do not want to discuss the question > in the forum. Otherwise, I would have already done so. > > On Wednesday, March 28, 2012 6:14:51 PM UTC+2, Felix E. Klee wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 5:48 PM, Gregory D'alesandre <gr...@google.com> > wrote: > > It is part of the reason we can offer so many free services. > > Those free services... Just look at my toy projects on App Engine. In > the past they cost only when there was a lot of traffic. Now they cost > ca. 9 USD/month. Each one! At least those projects I would like to > migrate away. But that's a different issue. > > > Now that we have answered the meta-question about the question, what > > was the actual question? > > It's a question about billing, which became only relevant due to the > switch to the new pricing model. I do not want to discuss the question > in the forum. Otherwise, I would have already done so. > > -- 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/-/Yj2b22IR1g0J. 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.
