I was also surprised and thankful for Alexis's honesty. The fact that no one ever heard about this is interesting.
I tried to prevent my brain from calculating a what-if scenario. but couldn't. however I see that 50% of my current instance bill is less than 500$'s, what a relief :) On Monday, February 4, 2013 5:07:43 PM UTC+2, Michael Hermus wrote: > > Thanks for the insight! > > I am very surprised to hear about the discounted instance pricing; that is > a HUGE benefit that I would think Google would want to advertise; perhaps > they have not decided if it will be a permanent feature of Premier? > > On Monday, February 4, 2013 4:03:44 AM UTC-5, Alexis wrote: >> >> With a Premier account all our apps instances benefit from the reduced >> pricing ($0.05/hour) as if they were reserved ones. That was a good >> surprise for us (as we did not see it mentioned anywhere) and we actually >> made savings switching to Premier while no longer having to perform this >> annoying optimization with reserved instances. >> Premier also allowed us to pay our bills later (monthly invoice), which >> is great when you encounter growth and need more time for the money to come >> in (delays with Ad providers payments etc.). >> >> About the support, you can issue tickets with a priority. Depending on >> the priority we set, we use to have an answer within 10 minutes to 24 >> hours. Then the quality of the support we received so far highly depended >> on who would deal with our tickets (we always have had our tickets resolved >> but sometimes the support guy is more efficient and gives more insights). >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
