> Perhaps it's time the App > Engine team put some serious consideration into how they might decouple the > two services so that we can use our own domains in a more traditional > manner?
http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=8517 On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 12:19 PM, notreadbyhumans <notreadbyhum...@gmail.com> wrote: > It's also a point of principle. We are already paying for the App Engine > service through that infrastructure, and we are forced to use Apps because > of a quirk of that infrastructure. Now we are having to pay for that > privilege if we want to do more that the absolute minimum (having multiple > email accounts for an application is a fairly common/predominant use-case). > > It seems perfectly reasonable for Google to have made this change for all > the other uses of Apps, but it seems to me that the App Engine/Apps > relationship is a slightly special edge case. Perhaps it's time the App > Engine team put some serious consideration into how they might decouple the > two services so that we can use our own domains in a more traditional > manner? > > > On Friday, December 7, 2012 10:35:09 AM UTC, Mat Jaggard wrote: >> >> Hi Steve, >> I think you're missing the point. 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. >> >> Mat. >> >> On Friday, 7 December 2012 09:18:18 UTC, Steve Daniels wrote: >>> >>> Hi Thomas, >>> >>> I don't mean to show disrespect, but if your startup can't afford $50 to >>> send email from a Google Apps address, then you've probably got bigger >>> issues. >>> >>> Yours Respectfully, >>> >>> Steve >>> >>> On Friday, 7 December 2012 07:11:24 UTC, Thomas Wiradikusuma wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi Greg (of Google), >>>> >>>> I agree of what the other Greg said. It's very common to send >>>> transactional emails from a dedicated address (e.g. noreply). It's not >>>> professional (and even raise suspicion) if the "Click here to reset your >>>> password" email comes from j...@startupname.com for example. >>>> >>>> If it's not possible to increase the account from 1 to n, at least >>>> please allow the use of alias. >>>> >>>> >>>> On Friday, 7 December 2012 10:42:42 UTC+8, Greg wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Just saw that Google Apps is no longer free for businesses. >>>>> >>>>> I have no problem paying for a Google Apps account where I actually use >>>>> Google apps, but at the moment you have to have a Google Apps account to >>>>> link a domain to an Appengine app. Some of our apps have two or three >>>>> domains showing the same app, and because you need to have an account for >>>>> each email address that Appengine sends email from, we have three or four >>>>> accounts per domain. So this is potentially going to add $600 per year to >>>>> our costs - all for virtual accounts that don't actually use Google Apps >>>>> at >>>>> all. >>>>> >>>>> Can someone from Google comment please? Either Google Apps accounts >>>>> need to remain free if they are associated with Appengine apps, or there >>>>> needs to be another way to link domains (and authorise email addresses) >>>>> for >>>>> Appengine. >>>>> >>>>> > -- > 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/-/Yg6KgOUe3OgJ. > > 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. 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.
