Hi, since two years I’m running a blog at GAE focusing the Arctic and as an unique feature a Google Map with daily high resolution Arctic satellite images from NASA was included. The NASA images need to be tiled, cached and served and this process runs on GAE, too.
Usually interest is low during dark Arctic Winter and rises in September the time sea ice reaches its minimum extent. No problem so far with the free quota on outgoing bandwidth. This year is different: Latest Arctic storm reduced sea ice extent by a million square kilometers in a week and public interest was so high free quota was exhausted 5 hours after reset. Now - end of August - it is absolutely clear that this year will or has already broke all records in terms of sea ice minimum and makes a major step direction ice free-ness. When in a few years the Arctic lacks sea ice completely in September, it will change weather pattern all over the northern hemisphere - one explanation of accelerating public interests. I’d like to mention the project is ad free and totally beyond any economic interests. All I want is to keep it running and give everybody on the planet the chance to see with his own eyes how dramatic the situation in the Arctic is. True color satellite images are free of interpretation and do not lead to discussions whether there is sea ice or not. Here is the thing: If I enable billing to satisfy the need for pure information I’m bankrupt next month. If not 99% of the users are going to see nothing, get frustrated and possibly never come back. So my best option is to close the site now. What do you think? -- Torsten -- 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/-/EfJmHzufgKEJ. 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.
