Hi Matt, On Friday, 7 December 2012 10:35:09 UTC, Mat Jaggard wrote: > > Some startups are getting going with zero capital because an individual > with some skills and some time can produce and sell a product using free > cloud services and then once they've made a few bob can upgrade. > > Google WERE supporting this model very well - shame on you for stopping. > > Very succinctly put - this raises the barriers to entry to GAE for small startups, and significantly reduces its usefulness for testing ideas.
Reducing the free tier from 10 to 5 (or even 3 at a push), or reducing the cost per user for tiny teams, could have significantly mitigated that had Google wished to do so - clearly they don't, which is their call of course. For several of my smaller/more speculative projects where I'd intended to use GAE, Google Apps or both, this will cause me to fire up a couple of new Linodes, which may or may not be Google's intention. However, whilst this change is not hugely significant in and of itself, it is a timely reminder to me that I'm safer using services that I pay for, and where I therefore know where I stand. The uncertainty as to what change will come next is the bigger issue to me. FWIW, Linode surprises me now and again, too - but every time Linode surprises me, it is with *good* news... -- Cheers, PhilK -- 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/-/PpfetAqAFB8J. 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.
