Barry -- I am not arguing a conspiracy at all. I am saying that what GAE did, whether it be on purpose or not, resulted in a huge increase in the cost of hosting. It has forced me to opt in for premium memcache. It remains to be seen if GAE responds to this at all but the history suggests they will not. Also, they changed this on Saturday without any warning either -- something they should be held accountable for as well.
Right now, I have to opt in for the premium memcache at a cost of almost $1100 a year because 1 gig is the minimum size I can get. They do not even prorate the cost based on what I am actually using -- something they routinely do in other billing areas, e.g. reads, bandwidth, emails, etc. So, why not prorate the premium hosting. In my case the cost could drop by 90% since I will likely not use more than 100 megs. On Sunday, October 6, 2013 11:57:02 AM UTC-7, James Gilliam wrote: > > GAE has drastically changed the way MEMCACHE works; as a result my > application (ogeekcom) overall usage jumped by approximately 5 times with > the same approximate bandwidth output. Like a 400% increase in price. > > Specifically, they are purging shared memcache very aggressively -- > possible in an effort to force people to signup for paid memcache. > > As a result of this change, my application is using many more datastore > reads and many more instances to compensate for the poor memcache > performance. > > Like always, this was done without any announcement at all. > > If they made this change to increase make applications cost more to run, > it is illegal. > > There is no problem with them offering a premium service for memcache, but > it is illegal to degrade the previous service to force people into the paid > model. > > -- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
