Announcing a pricing hike with 2 weeks notice* (and still no reliable tools to experiment with the new pricing as the scheduler is not reliable) is not a way to treat your customers.
Because yes, we are customers of App Engine and we have been very good customers (we paid for a service which is not reliable, full of bugs and limitations for the last 3 years). App Engine - you enjoyed having people build their businesses on App Engine. You encouraged start ups to move to the new platform. We made App Engine the success that it is today - together. So why treat your customers this way? All these hours we spent fighting against limitations of the platform - everything is wasted ? Is it so difficult to keep old pricing for old customers for another couple months to give us some time to adjust our businesses? Because *yes* we are willing to tweak our code and adjust our businesses. That's what we've been doing for the last couple years. But we need more than 2 weeks. Are you running out of money ? Promise we can click on a few more ads every day to make up for it. What if Steve Jobs changed his ToS to make you pay every time you open a paid installed app. How would you feel about iPhone and Apple ? This is a sad day for Google and us. I have faith that you will fix that mess. But it's still sad that you treat your customers like this. (*) for the app engine guys out there who say we've been warned for 5 months... that's not true. It's only few days ago that we got billing history with actual costs. And still the scheduler settings are not complete (no way to set minimum number of instances) and it's not reliable anyway. Not even talking about the python mess. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-appengine/-/YZ6uUX8QCYgJ. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
