I would perhaps suggest trying a linux Amazon Micro instance sitting in front. Just a basic install of varnish should do the trick* http://harish11g.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/varnish-page-cache-aws-configure.html (and make sure your application is serving headers that allow caching)
Can get it free for a year: http://aws.amazon.com/free/ Although you do only get 15 GB of outgoing bandwidth free. After than it is $0.120 per GB - pay as go, no minimum fee. But that might be enough to tie you over for a few weeks. I dont know of a provider that gives you unlimited bandwidth for free. If they do, its probably really bad (slow/unreliable), so as to be not worth the bother. Can get a reasonable VPS tho, for about $15 a month. Some offer generous bandwidth allowances. But if you going to be paying about $15 a month, may as well pay that for appengine directly, its also 0.12/Gb. Your $9 a month minimum gives you 75Gb a month. * If one instance struggles with the load, can also get a free windows instance. And an elastic load balancer, but the configuration is getting much more complicated then. On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 12:09 PM, noiv <noi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks Rob, Richard, > > the image tiles are directly served from GAE and only outgoing bandwidth > limits capacity. I'm going to reach out in Winter for sponsoring, but the > question is how to survive next 8 weeks? > > If I understand you correctly there might be an option to put a provider > with unlimited bandwidth in front, so GAE serves each image only once. How > could I start that? > > -- Torsten > > > > > > > > On Wednesday, August 22, 2012 11:55:13 AM UTC+2, Rob Coops wrote: >> >> The big question for me is where are you serving these images from? >> If you are serving them directly from NASA servers or from an alternative >> source then you would most likely see very little traffic as most of it will >> be just URI's pointing to the images. There are a lot of hosting companies >> out there that claim to deliver unlimited bandwidth (not true I am sure, but >> worth giving it a shot). GAE seems to have been purely at delivering >> functionality actual content should be served from other locations if you >> want to keep bill within reason. >> >> If you are already showing people the images from an location other then >> GAE you will have to choose to limit the amount of data people can consume >> (only a static image no zooming, panning or any other fancy stuff) informing >> visitors that you are unable to afford this functionality due to the high >> bandwidth demands. If that still won't do it you could attempt to find some >> company willing to sponsor your efforts, unfortunately the nature of GAE >> means that portability is not to great so moving to an alternative host will >> be difficult at best. >> >> I have seen many projects that got sponsorship from companies or >> government organisations to allow them to continue to provide the unique >> information to viewers. >> >> On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 11:40 AM, Richard Watson <richard...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> Which resources are being hit the hardest? Outgoing bandwidth? >>> >>> >>> On Wednesday, August 22, 2012 6:51:45 AM UTC+2, Torsten Becker wrote: >>>> >>>> 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/-/OTYSfYfbDgoJ. >>> >>> To post to this group, send email to google-a...@googlegroups.com. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> google-appengi...@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 view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-appengine/-/z9jcS0stqjoJ. > > 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. 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