Absolutely agree. WIth proper design, most small businesses should be
easily capable of running GAE at very low or no cost. I ALWAYS recommend
it. Unfortunately I have never gotten the sense that Google has any
targeted marketing plan for SMB. Some of the setups I see are so
discouraging. BTW Google (if you are reading this): Most SMB owner's that I
meet could really, really use some help understanding issues like this. Why
can't you guys peel off a tiny fraction of your billions and do some ads to
address this? -stevep
On Wednesday, October 23, 2013 2:15:06 AM UTC-7, timh wrote:
>
> I agree with @Kaan.
>
> I run a small business site on gae, and I am both happy with the price,
> the performance and the reliability.
> Sure I could run it on other hosting services, however I don't have the
> time or the inclination to maintain the whole stack down to the OS,
> manage scalability, etc......
>
> I pay on average $1.50 a day and every cent is worth it.
>
> Just my 2c worth, or $1.50 ;-)
>
> T
>
> On Wednesday, October 23, 2013 4:49:02 PM UTC+8, Kaan Soral wrote:
>>
>> I don't agree, even if it's true, and you have strong evidence, why do
>> you keep on paying $3k, does the weight of your money disturb you, do you
>> feel like you need to lose some?
>>
>> I might be able to reproduce a similar system to mine with 1/2X the gae
>> cost, however it wouldn't be scalable, I would also need to put >10x effort
>> into creating the system, and probably spend >100X effort to maintain the
>> system
>>
>> I think gae should { [1] start free [2] base cost [3] reduced base cost
>> for higher traffic [4] more reduced costs for extreme amounts of traffic }
>> implement a system similar to this, this way people could start using gae,
>> experiment freely and also feel more confident about growing with gae
>>
>> On Wednesday, October 23, 2013 9:50:17 AM UTC+3, Rafael Sanches wrote:
>>>
>>> GAE is 30x more expensive than hosting things yourself.
>>>
>>> I know this because I pay $3000 a month for something that I could be
>>> paying $70 :)
>>>
>>> On Tuesday, October 22, 2013, stevep wrote:
>>>
>>>> I remember the days of the GAE polls (think that product mgr may be
>>>> gone now - at least the polls seem to be). An interesting poll would be
>>>> which is more desired by customers: 1) Cost reduction w/ fewer new
>>>> features, or 2) Current costs and feature progress. (I would add a third:
>>>> 10x reduction is "oops GAE email" followed by item-1.) Not a productive
>>>> meandering, but still of interest (I've more than a few years in corporate
>>>> finance). -stevep
>>>>
>>>> On Monday, October 21, 2013 11:02:02 PM UTC-7, Jeff Schnitzer wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> It is interesting to ponder. The theory is that GAE lets us scale...
>>>>> but if it takes 100X the number of instances to process the same amount
>>>>> of
>>>>> traffic, who but Google could actually afford to scale? And 100X might
>>>>> not
>>>>> be unrealistic; a 16GB 8-core linode is down to $320/mo; an 8G 4-core
>>>>> instance backed by SSD from digitalocean is $80/mo. Compute power is
>>>>> becoming crazy cheap.
>>>>>
>>>>> The compelling thing about GAE is that you can run without a devops
>>>>> team. That's worth a lot. But the price makes it not the obvious win that
>>>>> it seems like it should be.
>>>>>
>>>>> Jeff
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 4:41 AM, Claudio Antunes <claud...@gmail.com>wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I think App Engine is very, very good, but it is very, very expensive.
>>>>>> Yesterday I was testing my application and I've did a comparison:
>>>>>> About 600,000 pageviews delivered, I paid US$ 35 to Google.
>>>>>> I'm using Frontend Instance Class F1 and 50 Max Idle Instances and
>>>>>> 4.0s to Min Pending Latency.
>>>>>> On my current hosting, VPS.NET <http://vps.net/>, I pay US$ 30 daily
>>>>>> to have 2 machines with 38.4GHz Dedicated CPU and 6152MB Dedicated RAM
>>>>>> to
>>>>>> delivery my application. As I use it only 12 hours, I pay only US$ 15.
>>>>>> So App Engine Is very, but very, but very expensive. And if I enable
>>>>>> the Cloud SQL, it will be yet more expensive.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> There is anyway to reduce the price?
>>>>>>
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