Totally agree with Jim and Tim. But, I think it's a waste of time trying to reason with guys like Rafael and coto.
They keep forgetting the cost of software and hardware maintainance, monitoring, load balancing, scaling, intrastructure stack, reliability, etc, no matter how many times you try to explain it. Sometimes, I wonder why they keep using App Engine. Maybe it's just because their companies actually did proper ROI/TCO calculations. On 21 January 2014 07:35, Rafael <mufumb...@gmail.com> wrote: > Guys, > > Please, we're not in 1970 anymore. There is no argue that appengine is the > most expensive hosting on earth and possibly the universe. > > My company spend $4000 a month with appengine. We could host the same > service with $50 in a more powerful environment: > http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produktmatrix/rootserver-produktmatrix-ex > > With $300 we could make it redundant and more reliable and faster than > appengine. > A dedicated server is also more reliable, because of appengine infamous > "hicupps" due to its scheduling system and instance boot time. > In one of my services I rent a rack with 20 spaces and it's filled with only > 10 severs. It means I can scale my servers with 10 more. That configuration > costs $1000. > Please, pay attention for 10 dedicated quad-core with 32GB of ram. How much > would you pay in appengine for that type of throughput? I did the > calculations: $60k. > > Please, it's incomparable price wise. There's no argue and let's not go > there :) > > thanks > rafa > > > On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 1:44 PM, Jim <jeb62...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I've seen many variations of this statement, "Google App Engine is >> expensive!", and it always strikes me as a bit off. I supppose it depends >> on your perspective and your requirements. >> >> For the past three years I've been running a small start-up building a >> SaaS analytics application. For the prior 25 years or so I built enterprise >> apps for some well-known software houses. The last 12 years I was building >> SaaS-based software products serving top-tier global financial institutions. >> During that time I worked on projects where we built, from the ground up, 2 >> different web-based solutions which wound up serving tens-of-thousands of >> end-users and very large volumes of system-to-system (B2B type) transaction >> volumes. >> >> When we created our infrastructure for these systems we needed multiple >> geographically dispersed data centers, high levels of fault-tolerance within >> any given data center, n-tier architecture, secure systems, scalable >> databases and front-end servers, system, security and network monitoring and >> administration, etc. When you spec that all out from scratch, you will have >> a hard time doing it for less than several hundred thousand dollars capex >> with big ongoing opex expense. Any growth beyond your initial headroom will >> require additional capex expenditure and incremental ongoing opex. >> >> Depending on the profile of your application and the system load, at some >> point you will pass the threshold of it being cheaper to build and maintain >> your own equivalent infrastructure, but that threshold is very, very high. >> So it makes me think people who say GAE is 'expensive' are not making a >> comparison such as this. Maybe they don't really need everything that GAE >> offers. >> >> Or perhaps they are comparing GAE to other cloud offerings such as AWS? >> Amazon's pricing doesn't seem to be radically different than Google's to me, >> for similar services. And given that Amazon's PaaS solution is not yet as >> complete at GAE, I think that any complete appliation built on AWS is going >> to require some level of system-engineering. System engineers are not >> cheap. One of the things we like about GAE is that, at this point in our >> corporate evolution, we can focus entirely on our Customers and our Software >> and not spend money or time configuring hardware, OS and other "low level" >> stuff that we (as application software guys) don't want to mess with. There >> are very real hard and soft monetary benefits to this. >> >> Or maybe when people say "expensive" they mean as compared to other >> "cloud" offerings that are more along the lines of rented physical or >> virtual machines. Yes, some of these can be cheap compared to GAE. But >> these are really apples-to-oranges comparisons when you consider all the >> things you need to provision a global, "utility-grade" (aspirationally, >> anyway) SaaS offering. >> >> So I guess this post is a long-winded way of me saying "GAE Expensive? >> Really? What exactly do you mean by that? Compared to what?" >> >> On Monday, January 20, 2014 4:19:54 AM UTC-6, coto wrote: >>> >>> We all should be surprised, because Google App Engine is very expensive!! >>> >>> On Sunday, January 19, 2014 5:23:13 AM UTC-3, alex wrote: >>>> >>>> Why were you surprised? >> >> -- >> 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. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/google-appengine/8x7pHZI0XRo/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, 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. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. 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