What worries me is the to me confusing pricing based on instances. As I
wrote recently in another thread: One new app I have has had 3 instances
running the last few days. With a 15 minutes minimum it means essentially 3
instances active 24/7 (the app has cron jobs running). That's two
This recent thread is relevent.
http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine/browse_thread/thread/e19434c4d7ccdf41/7aede121218826db#7aede121218826db
On 1 June 2011 19:28, Anders blabl...@gmail.com wrote:
What worries me is the to me confusing pricing based on instances. As I
wrote recently
I must have missed something. I can't imagine that Google would be that
stupid and/or greedy.
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Ok, the new scheduler will start to take down instances more. But can we
really trust that? The more instances the scheduler spawns, the more money
Google makes. There is no incentive for Google to improve the scheduler.
With the new price model the incentive is the opposite: to make the
This is one of the frustrating things about the new pricing model.
The incentives are all wrong. I don't think Google will deliberately
try to overcharge us, but in the long run organizations follow
incentives - and they no longer have a direct incentive to maximize
the efficiency of each
Yes, there are many things wrong with the pricing model based on instances.
And many things are in the hands of Google, out of our control us customers
as you pointed out. And even if Google really is honest behind the public
scene, which may very well be the case, what would prevent some
