Re: [google-appengine] Help! Billing Out of Control!

2013-01-07 Thread Stephen Blum
:34:06 AM UTC-8, Christina Ilvento wrote: Hi Stephen, I'll start a separate thread with you so we can discuss the specifics. Thanks, Christina, Google App Engine Product Manager On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 1:02 PM, Stephen Blum blum.s...@gmail.comjavascript: wrote: Hi Takashi and Google

Re: [google-appengine] Help! Billing Out of Control!

2013-01-04 Thread Stephen Blum
UTC-8, Stephen Blum wrote: Hi Takashi, We tried using the *Migration Buttons* in the Datastore Admin section labeled *Copy to Another App* and Delete Entities. The button labeled Copy to Another App is totally related and relevant to migration and the way it is described in the Migration

[google-appengine] Help! Billing Out of Control!

2013-01-02 Thread Stephen Blum
Help! We are bing charged *$30/per minute*! *A major datastore error. * Help! Keeps increasing! Help! https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-7aDiJuaWEQM/UOUCx3GKmCI/AXc/DFYTgLtqSHI/s1600/Screen+Shot+2013-01-02+at+8.01.41+PM.png -- You received this message because you are subscribed to

Re: [google-appengine] Help! Billing Out of Control!

2013-01-02 Thread Stephen Blum
(with or without task queue), you need to fix the implementation. -- Takashi On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 8:03 PM, Stephen Blum blum.s...@gmail.comjavascript: wrote: Help! We are bing charged *$30/per minute*! *A major datastore error. * Help! Keeps increasing! Help! https://lh3

Re: [google-appengine] Help! Billing Out of Control!

2013-01-02 Thread Stephen Blum
. I also noticed that you're using deprecated M/S datastore, which is very susceptible to just a small failure in a single datacenter. I strongly recommend migrating your app to HRD. -- Takashi On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 9:06 PM, Stephen Blum blum.s...@gmail.comjavascript: wrote: Hi

Re: [google-appengine] Help! Billing Out of Control!

2013-01-02 Thread Stephen Blum
10:05:38 PM UTC-8, Takashi Matsuo (Google) wrote: On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 9:48 PM, Stephen Blum blum.s...@gmail.comjavascript: wrote: Hi Takashi, Thank you for the details! We are in the process of migrating now, and I expect that is cause. However it was my understanding

Re: [google-appengine] Help! Billing Out of Control!

2013-01-02 Thread Stephen Blum
to the dochttps://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/adminconsole/migration?hl=enand migrate with our migration tool. Re: refund I don't think we can refund for it, sorry. -- Takashi On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 10:18 PM, Stephen Blum blum.s...@gmail.comjavascript: wrote: Hi Takashi, https://lh5

Re: [google-appengine] Help! Billing Out of Control!

2013-01-02 Thread Stephen Blum
moments. Please help us fix this billing error! :-) On Wednesday, January 2, 2013 11:17:24 PM UTC-8, Takashi Matsuo (Google) wrote: Hi Stephen, On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 10:49 PM, Stephen Blum blum.s...@gmail.comjavascript: wrote: Hi Takashi, Thank you for the update. How do we properly

[google-appengine] Re: Backends and Channels

2011-05-27 Thread Stephen Blum
Chiguireitor, Hey, the Channel API is great except for what you are trying to do with it. I recommend using a free service like http://www.pubnub.com/ which is has simple send/receive functions and can be run from anywhere. Stephen On May 26, 1:31 pm, Chiguireitor johnvillarzava...@gmail.com

[google-appengine] Re: Using App Engine as a server for an Android game.

2011-05-05 Thread Stephen Blum
Rohan, There is an easy solution for your Android app! Check out a free option at http://www.pubnub.com/tutorial/java-push-api You can use this service for free according to their usage rules for Development. Once you launch your app you can continue to use the service for free if you follow

[google-appengine] Re: Why can't Channel API perform a fan-out broadcast?

2011-05-03 Thread Stephen Blum
Albert, Berry, Mike and Mars, There are several broadcasting services available today. Twitter Scale Services like http://www.pubnub.com for mobile apps, websites and tablet apps are easy to use. Others like Pushser and Beacon are great and have their own applications. I like PubNub because it

[google-appengine] Re: communicate with channel over external python app?

2011-04-16 Thread Stephen Blum
Dale, Like Andreas stated above the XMPP API will be more what you are seeking, however you'll need to write a wrapper between your Channel API and the XMPP receiver. There are Cloud services available such as PubNub that provide this layer of communication automatically between all types of

[google-appengine] Re: How many concurrent channels can GAE handle?

2011-04-12 Thread Stephen Blum
Jamie, That is another opportunity I took advantage of when switching to PubNub for the Channel API as unlimited channels and connections are provided. I'm not trying to oversell the option, however it will save you time building your own scalable re-usage of channels since it comes for free.

[google-appengine] Re: How many concurrent channels can GAE handle?

2011-04-09 Thread Stephen Blum
the sending? Robert On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 15:33, Stephen Blum blum.step...@gmail.com wrote: Jamie, I have experience with what you are describing Jamie while I was building an IRC style chat client where multiple user are connected to a chat room.  When a user send a message I would

[google-appengine] Re: How many concurrent channels can GAE handle?

2011-04-08 Thread Stephen Blum
Jamie, I have experience with what you are describing Jamie while I was building an IRC style chat client where multiple user are connected to a chat room. When a user send a message I would loop through each user connected in the channel and send them a message using

[google-appengine] Re: Serving talkgadet.google.com through your own app

2011-03-23 Thread Stephen Blum
Fredrik, There are other services available which provide this level of customization such as www.pubnub.com cloud service. Stephen On Mar 22, 11:43 pm, Fredrik Westmark fredrik.westm...@gmail.com wrote: Ok, I see. My devious plan is to circumvent all the webfilters out there which are

[google-appengine] Re: Channel API encoding problem

2011-03-07 Thread Stephen Blum
Dilbert, I know it is early to recommend this, however there is another Channel API service that supports UTF8 and Unicode encodings called PubNub. The pricing structure is different so go to http://www.pubnub.com to learn more about the offering. There are other Channel API services out there