So based on a running cost less than 3% of revenue, then this app is REALLY REALLY REALLY cheap.
I don't have true pageviews because as I said its 80% ajax transactions, so new template rendering etc.... so not a comparable measure. But just to please you on a typical day there is around 2200 pageviews , but between 5 and 10 times that in terms of ajax transactions (which aren't monitored by analytics), but to be honest it's not something I really monitor closely as it not particularly important. Unless you compare features of a service, meeting a minimal base line for comparison any comparison is meaningless. You know apples and oranges. I run another site that derives absolutely no direct revenue, it is their solely to get get people to visit a bricks and motor shop, and the $2 a day that is costing is very cheap as all the advertising we run is Adwords (adwords is expensive) and the site running costs. Yes I could run it on Digital Ocean or AWS small instance for probably cheaper, but then I have to look after infrastructure webstack/database, I do not have the time or inclination to do that. So my measure of cheap is completely different to yours. I certainly don't measure the cost or quality of the service or the value of the outcomes in terms of pageviews per dollar (at least not directly) So I am not really going to bother with this discussion any more, in your opinion GAE is not cheap, in my opinion by all the metrics that I am interested and the applications I run/develop on appengine it is. Does this mean I would run all new projects on appengine - absolutely not, I would pick the best (as much as I could) tool for the job. -- 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.
