[google-appengine] Re: New Channel API pricing scheme

2011-07-22 Thread Everson Alves da Silva
Someone please correct me if I am wrong, but looks like the limit was changed drastically. Now I see 8,640 channels limit for free apps and 95,040 for accounts with billing enabled. Now I think we can use it. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google

[google-appengine] Re: New Channel API pricing scheme

2011-07-03 Thread Gijsbert
I'm still using the ping/time-out scheme from before the presence api existence, but the presence api makes it a lot easier. But since this new pricing turmoil started I have put my app engine projects on hold and haven't tried the presence api yet. I must admit that the new pricing makes it a lot

[google-appengine] Re: New Channel API pricing scheme

2011-07-03 Thread ksafez216
Is this channel reuse done by using Channel Presence to save tokens? I still haven't found a function to test if a token is still valid? I was experiencing channel disconnects when the user shuts down their browsers even if the channel was only opened for a few minutes. So this means we will get

[google-appengine] Re: New Channel API pricing scheme

2011-07-02 Thread Gijsbert
One channel gives one connection between one browser and app engine, so for a 1 on 1 game you would need 2. But, the current channels are valid for 2 hours and can be reused after the one browsers stops needing it in another browser (you need to do that reuse yourself). I don't know if this will be

[google-appengine] Re: New Channel API pricing scheme

2011-07-02 Thread Everson Alves da Silva
So, for a 1 vs 1 game, can one pool the channels? opening a new channel for each game session would be very expensive. -- 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/ms

[google-appengine] Re: New Channel API pricing scheme

2011-07-02 Thread Gijsbert
BTW I think it is the number of channels opened, not concurrently open. I've never seen a mention of a limit on number of concurrent channels. On Jul 2, 11:45 am, Chiguireitor wrote: > Hi all, i was just reading the new pricing scheme and came along a little > tidbit that made me feel a little un