So why bother with App Engine at all. In so many ways it is s
limited. Just move the whole lot to Amazon! I think App Engine is
destined to become Google's Edsel.
On Feb 25, 9:36 am, peterk wrote:
> What are your requirements?
>
> If you want media or large-file hosting..perhaps you could use
> amazon's s3 to host your static files to overcome any bandwidth
> limitations on GAE's end (if you need more than 740MB per minute)? I'm
> assuming Amazon doesn't have rate limits or absolute bandwidth usage
> limits. Once you factor out your static and media files, are you
> really going to need more tham 740MB/minute of bandwidth?
>
> That said, 740MB/minute is over 12MB per second of bandwidth..that to
> me sounds pretty decent given that many dedicated servers still offer
> 10Mbit (1.25MB) connections to the internet! If GAE actually offers a
> sustained >12MB/sec of bandwidth to your clients, on the face of it,
> that seems pretty good? Am I missing something?
>
> For me, I'm more worried about request limits, so I plan to offload
> all static requests to S3 in order to reserve my request quota and
> bandwidth solely for the dynamic side of my app which will run on GAE.
> A very large portion of my requests will be for 'small'' static files,
> and it seems a waste to use GAE requests for those when they could be
> put on s3 or cloudfront.
>
> The free quota revisions are unfortunate, but things are quite
> scalable..once you're willing to pay, of course. But we always knew
> we'd have to pay for more beyond the free quotas! They never suggested
> scalability to the nth degree for free.. :)
>
> On Feb 25, 8:42 am, cc wrote:
>
> > It looks like the accountants at Google have taken over If you
> > read over the new bandwidth quotes you will find that what was to be
> > scalable is not so anymore:
>
> > Outgoing Bandwidth (adjustable, includes HTTPS) 10 GByte 56
> > MByte/
> > min 10 GByte free (plus budgeted adjustment up to 1046 GBytes/day)
> > 740 MByte/min
>
> > 56 MByte/min 740 MByte/min wow talk about limited!
>
> > And don't forget to read all the way to the bottom of the page:
>
> > The new quota levels, which will take effect on May 25th, 2009, are:
>
> > * CPU Time: 6.5 hours of CPU time per day
> > * Bandwidth: 1 Gigabyte of data transferred in and out of the
> > application per day
> > * Stored Data & Email Recipients: these quotas will remain
> > unchanged.
>
> > These changes may also affect the fixed quotas applied to applications
> > without billing enabled. Fixed quotas for applications with billing
> > enabled will not be affected.
>
> > Bandwidth: 1 Gigabyte of data transferred in and out of the
> > application per day
>
> > Your joking right?
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