Thanks :) Very impressive and inspiring, I've never considered rectangle cropping up to this point, although I have ancient routines to find the right =s value for width/height/retina etc
On Tuesday, January 21, 2014 9:58:56 PM UTC+2, Rafael Sanches wrote: > > Jim, > > In 2014 a good engineer can create your own cloud infrastructure with 10 > machines like the ones I suggested. > > Again, I am not saying that I don't like appengine. In fact, I love it and > that's why I stick with it. > I am saying it's over priced to run a service like Snapchat. I don't think > there's any argument there. > > > Kaan, > > This is my gift to you: https://gist.github.com/mufumbo/8547036 > > It extends all of the appengine image features: "=s/-c" and includes the > most useful one: "=h" > > Depending on appengine's image serving is a limitation, since "vertical > cropping" is extremely useful on many elegant websites. > > For example, play around with: http://c1.picmix.net/61757192=s682=h300 or > http://c1.picmix.net/61757192=s300=h600 > > By the way, another way to reduce server costs is to pay the $400 or $200 > a month in support. > That way you get access to discounted instance hours. It decreased our > bill a bit and give access to a place to get feedback when appengine is > having problems or when you need to tweak your scheduling and performance > parameters that you don't have access from XML config. > > About three months ago I spent a whole month optimizing my servers to > reduce the costs from $10k to $5k. Even now, I feel it's too overpriced for > the performance it's delivering. > > thanks > rafa > > > On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 11:30 AM, Kaan Soral <kaan...@gmail.com<javascript:> > > wrote: > >> I think he gets it much more than you give him credit for >> >> Hetzner example, as I interpret it, and think about it myself, is about >> the price of computing/ram/bandwith, although it's not comparable 1:1, it's >> important to know how cheap computing and hosting has become over the >> years, especially in this last 5-10 years >> >> It was really interesting to hear about your story Rafael, it was the >> approximate reason why I started this discussion, to learn and speculate >> about major services >> >> The 2000$ to 300$ cdn comparison is interesting, however no other service >> that I know of matches the extreme capabilities of google images service >> I use the =s/-c resizing/cropping extensively, that's why I could never >> easily replace appengine, or the cdn >> >> You seem to have lived my worst case scenario, going out of money and >> having to ask others for money. >> >> Anyway if you don't mind it would be great to learn more about your >> product/story, but I'm guessing it's better to keep things as private as >> possible :) >> >> >> On Tuesday, January 21, 2014 9:16:18 PM UTC+2, Jim wrote: >>> >>> 1970's? What on earth about my post made you think of the 1970's? My >>> description of geographically redundant, web based applications? Please >>> indeed. >>> >>> The link you provided is for a LAMP hosting service... basically what I >>> described in my third scenario about. That's apples-vs-oranges as compared >>> to GAE. >>> >>> I suggest you consult with the Application Architects where you work and >>> politely ask them to describe the differences to you. Clearly nobody here >>> is getting through to you and I don't have the time or the inclination. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Tuesday, January 21, 2014 12:35:13 AM UTC-6, Rafael Sanches 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<http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hetzner.de%2Fen%2Fhosting%2Fproduktmatrix%2Frootserver-produktmatrix-ex&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNHB4pohCO2ZKGcxoTG5sY0nc6pvDw> >>>> >>>> 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 <jeb6...@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-appengi...@googlegroups.com. >>>>> To post to this group, send email to google-a...@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. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to google-appengi...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to >> google-a...@googlegroups.com<javascript:> >> . >> 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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