Thanks for clarifying, and, I agree, it would be great to clarify the doc page (I'll be working with the docs team on how exactly to do that -- it's far from obvious, since said page is already big and inevitably complicated).
Meanwhile, could you please accept my answer to your Q on serverfault? This way the issue will show up as "answered" and be findable that way by others who may understandably run into the same issue of unclear communication that you did. Thanks, Alex On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 5:38 PM, Chester Moy <somethingsome2...@gmail.com> wrote: > Then I did misinterpret the docs. It seemed like pretty explicit language > to me, > but I was making some assumptions. > > Instance usage is billed by instance uptime, at a given hourly rate. > … > Instances are priced based on an hourly rate determined by the instance > class. > … > Manual and basic scaling instances are billed at hourly rates based on > uptime. > > I took this to mean that instance classes had differing $/hr rates but, > what > it actually meant was i_hr/hr. That’s essentially the same thing if one > were > already paying for the service. But for someone who’s in the free tier, > the wording > was a little confusing. > > Thanks for your clarification. The docs are only clear for people already > familiar with cloud computing terminology. > > > -- > 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. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/9ee9447e-c7d3-4121-b17a-c1c1fb78c021%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/9ee9447e-c7d3-4121-b17a-c1c1fb78c021%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/CAE46Be8WWkTdy9X59WHJEk0_fqnzKtZVLTDgNuvA9n75pPMDwQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
