Re: [google-appengine] A comparison between Digital Ocean $5 plan and App Engine B$ instance type.

2014-02-20 Thread Pertti Kellomäki
On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 5:23 AM, Tapir tapir@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday, February 20, 2014 7:58:54 AM UTC+8, Jim wrote: It seems that some people want Infrastructure as a Service and they don't put much value on the Platform as a Service architecture that Google has created here.

Re: [google-appengine] A comparison between Digital Ocean $5 plan and App Engine B$ instance type.

2014-02-20 Thread Tapir
On Thursday, February 20, 2014 5:30:23 PM UTC+8, Pertti Kellomäki wrote: On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 5:23 AM, Tapir tapi...@gmail.com javascript:wrote: On Thursday, February 20, 2014 7:58:54 AM UTC+8, Jim wrote: It seems that some people want Infrastructure as a Service and they don't put

Re: [google-appengine] A comparison between Digital Ocean $5 plan and App Engine B$ instance type.

2014-02-20 Thread Jim
There are open source projects that would allow you to approximate the functionality of BigTable. I wonder have you put together a business case for what it would take you to build it and support it on your own? Another option I would consider if I were you and only really wanted the database

Re: [google-appengine] A comparison between Digital Ocean $5 plan and App Engine B$ instance type.

2014-02-20 Thread Tapir
On Thursday, February 20, 2014 7:56:16 PM UTC+8, Jim wrote: There are open source projects that would allow you to approximate the functionality of BigTable. I wonder have you put together a business case for what it would take you to build it and support it on your own? There is no

[google-appengine] A comparison between Digital Ocean $5 plan and App Engine B$ instance type.

2014-02-20 Thread Andrei Volgin
@Tapir Move your app to Compute Engine and stop complaining. You can still use the Datastore, but your instance will cost you much less. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Google App Engine group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving

Re: [google-appengine] A comparison between Digital Ocean $5 plan and App Engine B$ instance type.

2014-02-19 Thread Jim
Hello Rafa, I have been watching this thread wondering if you might chime in :-) This has been hashed over here many times before. It seems that some people want Infrastructure as a Service and they don't put much value on the Platform as a Service architecture that Google has created here.

Re: [google-appengine] A comparison between Digital Ocean $5 plan and App Engine B$ instance type.

2014-02-19 Thread Rafael
Yes. You're correct. I'm just making it sure people don't advertise it as cheap :) On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 3:58 PM, Jim jeb62...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Rafa, I have been watching this thread wondering if you might chime in :-) This has been hashed over here many times before. It seems

Re: [google-appengine] A comparison between Digital Ocean $5 plan and App Engine B$ instance type.

2014-02-19 Thread Tapir
On Thursday, February 20, 2014 7:58:54 AM UTC+8, Jim wrote: Hello Rafa, I have been watching this thread wondering if you might chime in :-) This has been hashed over here many times before. It seems that some people want Infrastructure as a Service and they don't put much value on the

Re: [google-appengine] A comparison between Digital Ocean $5 plan and App Engine B$ instance type.

2014-02-18 Thread Pertti Kellomäki
On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 7:46 AM, Tapir tapir@gmail.com wrote: I don't care about if you are happy with GAE or not. I just want to prove the GAE compute part is much more too expensive than it should be. You cannot prove it because it is ultimately up to the market to decide. The right

Re: [google-appengine] A comparison between Digital Ocean $5 plan and App Engine B$ instance type.

2014-02-18 Thread Tapir
On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 5:20:41 PM UTC+8, Pertti Kellomäki wrote: On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 7:46 AM, Tapir tapi...@gmail.com javascript:wrote: I don't care about if you are happy with GAE or not. I just want to prove the GAE compute part is much more too expensive than it should be.

Re: [google-appengine] A comparison between Digital Ocean $5 plan and App Engine B$ instance type.

2014-02-18 Thread timh
Prove for your case and in your opinion, and different environments and application load will affect the cost structure. I watch my applications carefully and I can say that I am not nor ever have been overcharged for the service provided. But I use python, I rarely see scheduler problems, I

Re: [google-appengine] A comparison between Digital Ocean $5 plan and App Engine B$ instance type.

2014-02-18 Thread Tapir
On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 7:23:49 PM UTC+8, timh wrote: Prove for your case and in your opinion, and different environments and application load will affect the cost structure. I watch my applications carefully and I can say that I am not nor ever have been overcharged for the

Re: [google-appengine] A comparison between Digital Ocean $5 plan and App Engine B$ instance type.

2014-02-18 Thread Andrew Mackenzie
Good post Barry. Things are not so simple. How much salary for Ops guys to keep that thing running 24x7? -- 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

Re: [google-appengine] A comparison between Digital Ocean $5 plan and App Engine B$ instance type.

2014-02-18 Thread Tapir
On Wednesday, February 19, 2014 3:32:27 AM UTC+8, Andrew Mackenzie wrote: Good post Barry. Things are not so simple. How much salary for Ops guys to keep that thing running 24x7? Sorry, I don't count this factor. For I think this cost per Op for big companies such as Google should be

Re: [google-appengine] A comparison between Digital Ocean $5 plan and App Engine B$ instance type.

2014-02-18 Thread Tapir
On Wednesday, February 19, 2014 3:32:27 AM UTC+8, Andrew Mackenzie wrote: Good post Barry. Things are not so simple. How much salary for Ops guys to keep that thing running 24x7? Sorry, I don't count this factor. For Ops at Big companies will manager more resources, I think this cost per

Re: [google-appengine] A comparison between Digital Ocean $5 plan and App Engine B$ instance type.

2014-02-18 Thread Rafael
Hi Barry, I wish what you are saying was correct. I run one of those big services that needed to scale. Unfortunately appengine price goes up as you scale. Unfortunately nobody can say that appengine makes sense price wise. It may make sense if it fits your taste and you like google tools.

Re: [google-appengine] A comparison between Digital Ocean $5 plan and App Engine B$ instance type.

2014-02-17 Thread Barry Hunter
Apples to Oranges. DigitalOcean to Compute Engine would be a fairer comparison. They are both the same 'type' of product. AppEngine isn't a magic 'fit all' solution. Many types of applications you could very definitly run (much) cheaper elsewhere (particularly ones that are small enough to fit

Re: [google-appengine] A comparison between Digital Ocean $5 plan and App Engine B$ instance type.

2014-02-17 Thread Tapir
On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 1:48:10 AM UTC+8, barryhunter wrote: Apples to Oranges. DigitalOcean to Compute Engine would be a fairer comparison. They are both the same 'type' of product. AppEngine isn't a magic 'fit all' solution. Many types of applications you could very

Re: [google-appengine] A comparison between Digital Ocean $5 plan and App Engine B$ instance type.

2014-02-17 Thread Tapir
On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 1:48:10 AM UTC+8, barryhunter wrote: Apples to Oranges. DigitalOcean to Compute Engine would be a fairer comparison. They are both the same 'type' of product. AppEngine isn't a magic 'fit all' solution. Many types of applications you could very

Re: [google-appengine] A comparison between Digital Ocean $5 plan and App Engine B$ instance type.

2014-02-17 Thread Tapir
On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 2:02:45 AM UTC+8, Tapir wrote: On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 1:48:10 AM UTC+8, barryhunter wrote: Apples to Oranges. DigitalOcean to Compute Engine would be a fairer comparison. They are both the same 'type' of product. AppEngine isn't a magic 'fit

Re: [google-appengine] A comparison between Digital Ocean $5 plan and App Engine B$ instance type.

2014-02-17 Thread Barry Hunter
On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 6:01 PM, Tapir tapir@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 1:48:10 AM UTC+8, barryhunter wrote: Apples to Oranges. DigitalOcean to Compute Engine would be a fairer comparison. They are both the same 'type' of product. AppEngine isn't a magic 'fit

Re: [google-appengine] A comparison between Digital Ocean $5 plan and App Engine B$ instance type.

2014-02-17 Thread Vinny P
On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 12:02 PM, Tapir tapir@gmail.com wrote: I admit DigitalOcean is an alternative to GCE instead of GAE. If this is a GCE vs. DO thread, perhaps you'd find more interesting discussion by posting in the GCE mailing list:

Re: [google-appengine] A comparison between Digital Ocean $5 plan and App Engine B$ instance type.

2014-02-17 Thread Tapir
On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 2:14:44 AM UTC+8, barryhunter wrote: On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 6:01 PM, Tapir tapi...@gmail.com javascript:wrote: On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 1:48:10 AM UTC+8, barryhunter wrote: Apples to Oranges. DigitalOcean to Compute Engine would be a fairer

Re: [google-appengine] A comparison between Digital Ocean $5 plan and App Engine B$ instance type.

2014-02-17 Thread Tapir
On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 2:34:22 AM UTC+8, Tapir wrote: On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 2:14:44 AM UTC+8, barryhunter wrote: On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 6:01 PM, Tapir tapi...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 1:48:10 AM UTC+8, barryhunter wrote: Apples to Oranges.

Re: [google-appengine] A comparison between Digital Ocean $5 plan and App Engine B$ instance type.

2014-02-17 Thread Barry Hunter
On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 6:34 PM, Tapir tapir@gmail.com wrote: If my website needs 150 VPS's to run, I would NEVER consider using GAE at all! Assume the 150 VPS's are the lowest end Linode VPS, which is more powerful than GAE B8 instance type. But it wouldn't need 150 GAE front end

Re: [google-appengine] A comparison between Digital Ocean $5 plan and App Engine B$ instance type.

2014-02-17 Thread Tapir
On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 2:50:11 AM UTC+8, barryhunter wrote: On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 6:34 PM, Tapir tapi...@gmail.com javascript:wrote: If my website needs 150 VPS's to run, I would NEVER consider using GAE at all! Assume the 150 VPS's are the lowest end Linode VPS, which is

Re: [google-appengine] A comparison between Digital Ocean $5 plan and App Engine B$ instance type.

2014-02-17 Thread Barry Hunter
The comparison even doesn't count the 15 minutes tax explained by BarryHunter in this thread: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/google-appengine/dTIK9dJHdZI and the bandwidth and other cost are included in the $45,000 for Linode VPS case. Thats on used counted each time an

Re: [google-appengine] A comparison between Digital Ocean $5 plan and App Engine B$ instance type.

2014-02-17 Thread Tapir
On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 3:04:25 AM UTC+8, barryhunter wrote: The comparison even doesn't count the 15 minutes tax explained by BarryHunter in this thread: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/google-appengine/dTIK9dJHdZI and the bandwidth and other cost are included in the

Re: [google-appengine] A comparison between Digital Ocean $5 plan and App Engine B$ instance type.

2014-02-17 Thread Tapir
On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 3:18:24 AM UTC+8, barryhunter wrote: On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 7:01 PM, Tapir tapi...@gmail.com javascript:wrote: On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 2:50:11 AM UTC+8, barryhunter wrote: On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 6:34 PM, Tapir tapi...@gmail.com wrote: If my

Re: [google-appengine] A comparison between Digital Ocean $5 plan and App Engine B$ instance type.

2014-02-17 Thread Tapir
On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 2:34:22 AM UTC+8, Tapir wrote: On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 2:14:44 AM UTC+8, barryhunter wrote: On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 6:01 PM, Tapir tapi...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 1:48:10 AM UTC+8, barryhunter wrote: Apples to Oranges.

Re: [google-appengine] A comparison between Digital Ocean $5 plan and App Engine B$ instance type.

2014-02-17 Thread Tapir
On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 3:18:24 AM UTC+8, barryhunter wrote: On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 7:01 PM, Tapir tapi...@gmail.com javascript:wrote: On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 2:50:11 AM UTC+8, barryhunter wrote: On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 6:34 PM, Tapir tapi...@gmail.com wrote: If my

Re: [google-appengine] A comparison between Digital Ocean $5 plan and App Engine B$ instance type.

2014-02-17 Thread Barry Hunter
On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 7:14 PM, Tapir tapir@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 3:04:25 AM UTC+8, barryhunter wrote: The comparison even doesn't count the 15 minutes tax explained by BarryHunter in this thread: https://groups.google.com/

Re: [google-appengine] A comparison between Digital Ocean $5 plan and App Engine B$ instance type.

2014-02-17 Thread Barry Hunter
On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 7:21 PM, Tapir tapir@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 3:18:24 AM UTC+8, barryhunter wrote: On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 7:01 PM, Tapir tapi...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 2:50:11 AM UTC+8, barryhunter wrote: On Mon, Feb 17,

Re: [google-appengine] A comparison between Digital Ocean $5 plan and App Engine B$ instance type.

2014-02-17 Thread Tapir
On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 3:35:40 AM UTC+8, barryhunter wrote: On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 7:21 PM, Tapir tapi...@gmail.com javascript:wrote: On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 3:18:24 AM UTC+8, barryhunter wrote: On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 7:01 PM, Tapir tapi...@gmail.com wrote: On

Re: [google-appengine] A comparison between Digital Ocean $5 plan and App Engine B$ instance type.

2014-02-17 Thread Tapir
On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 3:29:13 AM UTC+8, barryhunter wrote: On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 7:14 PM, Tapir tapi...@gmail.com javascript:wrote: On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 3:04:25 AM UTC+8, barryhunter wrote: The comparison even doesn't count the 15 minutes tax explained by

Re: [google-appengine] A comparison between Digital Ocean $5 plan and App Engine B$ instance type.

2014-02-17 Thread Tapir
On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 3:29:13 AM UTC+8, barryhunter wrote: On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 7:14 PM, Tapir tapi...@gmail.com javascript:wrote: On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 3:04:25 AM UTC+8, barryhunter wrote: The comparison even doesn't count the 15 minutes tax explained by

Re: [google-appengine] A comparison between Digital Ocean $5 plan and App Engine B$ instance type.

2014-02-17 Thread Barry Hunter
it is very fair to compare a VPS with a GAE instance. The result is so clear that less powerful pure computing unit (gae instance) charges much than a more powerful computing unit + storage + bandwidth. Yes, if that is all you compare, then most VPS's will certainly be cheaper than GAE. You

Re: [google-appengine] A comparison between Digital Ocean $5 plan and App Engine B$ instance type.

2014-02-17 Thread Barry Hunter
For an experienced IT maintainer, this is not a problem. If you have an experienced IT maintainer on hand, GAE might also be expensive on that merit alone. A big part of AppEngine, is you dont need one. So you save that cost. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the

Re: [google-appengine] A comparison between Digital Ocean $5 plan and App Engine B$ instance type.

2014-02-17 Thread Tapir
On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 4:02:11 AM UTC+8, barryhunter wrote: it is very fair to compare a VPS with a GAE instance. The result is so clear that less powerful pure computing unit (gae instance) charges much than a more powerful computing unit + storage + bandwidth. Yes, if that is

Re: [google-appengine] A comparison between Digital Ocean $5 plan and App Engine B$ instance type.

2014-02-17 Thread Tapir
On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 4:04:27 AM UTC+8, barryhunter wrote: For an experienced IT maintainer, this is not a problem. If you have an experienced IT maintainer on hand, GAE might also be expensive on that merit alone. A big part of AppEngine, is you dont need one. So you save

Re: [google-appengine] A comparison between Digital Ocean $5 plan and App Engine B$ instance type.

2014-02-17 Thread GregF
As many people have said, it depends on your use case. In my case, I am an application developer, not a sysadmin - I like to spend my time making applications, not worrying about fine-tuning memcache, database replication, software upgrades, and load balancers. Appengine has been fantastic for

Re: [google-appengine] A comparison between Digital Ocean $5 plan and App Engine B$ instance type.

2014-02-17 Thread Chad Vincent
I'm in a similar boat. I'm a small-business sysadmin turned developer. We can work with our current VPS service to add load balancing, alter our front-end to be easily cloneable, spin up extra frontends as demand requires, and continue to work on new features. Or we can go to AppEngine, get

Re: [google-appengine] A comparison between Digital Ocean $5 plan and App Engine B$ instance type.

2014-02-17 Thread Damith C Rajapakse
Our app https://teammatesv4.appspot.com has 100k entries in the datastore, 8000+ users, and a traffic rate about 1 hit every 10 seconds, plus bursts of traffic at certain times. My cost is less than $1 per day. So GAE fits rather nicely with my use case. -- You received this message because

Re: [google-appengine] A comparison between Digital Ocean $5 plan and App Engine B$ instance type.

2014-02-17 Thread Tapir
I don't care about if you are happy with GAE or not. I just want to prove the GAE compute part is much more too expensive than it should be. On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 5:43:45 AM UTC+8, GregF wrote: As many people have said, it depends on your use case. In my case, I am an application

Re: [google-appengine] A comparison between Digital Ocean $5 plan and App Engine B$ instance type.

2014-02-17 Thread Tapir
Again, I don't care about if you are happy with GAE or not. I just want to prove the GAE compute part is much more too expensive than it should be. On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 5:53:37 AM UTC+8, Chad Vincent wrote: I'm in a similar boat. I'm a small-business sysadmin turned developer. We

Re: [google-appengine] A comparison between Digital Ocean $5 plan and App Engine B$ instance type.

2014-02-17 Thread Tapir
I don't care about if you are happy with GAE or not. I just want to prove the GAE compute part is much more too expensive than it should be. On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 10:26:20 AM UTC+8, Damith C Rajapakse wrote: Our app https://teammatesv4.appspot.com has 100k entries in the datastore,

Re: [google-appengine] A comparison between Digital Ocean $5 plan and App Engine B$ instance type.

2014-02-17 Thread Tapir
I don't care about if you are happy with GAE or not. I just want to prove the GAE compute part is much more too expensive than it should be. On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 10:26:20 AM UTC+8, Damith C Rajapakse wrote: Our app https://teammatesv4.appspot.com has 100k entries in the datastore,