On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 3:04:25 AM UTC+8, barryhunter wrote: > > >> >> The comparison even doesn't count the 15 minutes tax explained by >> BarryHunter in this thread: >> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/google-appengine/dTIK9dJHdZI >> and the bandwidth and other cost are included in the $45,000 for Linode >> VPS case. >> >> > > Thats on used counted each time an instance shuts down. If you have one > instance alive all day, serving 1 request/second all day, you will never > pay the 'tax' (well rarely) > > Get similar thing on other providers, eg digitalocean appear to charge by > the hour, so if you only use an instance for 15 minutes, you still pay for > the full hour. >
better than if you only use an instance for one second, you still pay for 15 minutes. :) > > If you have 'bursty' traffic it can be more noticeable, than if you have > pretty constant traffic (few start/stops) > If GAE instance scheduler does ideally, I would support your opinion. But in fact, the GAE instance scheduler often try to create unnecessary instances and is not willing to use the already created idle resident instances. -- 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.
