[google-appengine] Should developers pay for the useless instances? Can we set max instances to 1?

2012-07-10 Thread alex
What's the point in using AE infrastructure then? You're probably better off to EC2 micro instance, or openshift, or cloudfoundry, or appfog, or heroku, in that case. Personally, I'd be -1 unstarring (if I could) such a feature. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the G

Re: [google-appengine] Should developers pay for the useless instances? Can we set max instances to 1?

2012-07-10 Thread Nikhil Jain
Is this M/S or HR App.? On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 9:07 AM, Sun Jing wrote: > My site usually has little traffics. But app engine launched many useless > instances that caused I ran out of quotas yesterday. > > I had already set Max Idle Instances to 1 and Min Pending Latency to 15s, > but it didn'

Re: [google-appengine] Should developers pay for the useless instances? Can we set max instances to 1?

2012-07-10 Thread Robert Fischer
I can see how this feature would be useful -- especially for testing. I have an app I haven't released yet that once a minute sucks in new data and spawns many (maybe up to 200/minute max) requests using the task queue to process that data. When using frontends I was often spinning up 2-3+ instanc

Re: [google-appengine] Should developers pay for the useless instances? Can we set max instances to 1?

2012-07-11 Thread Sun Jing
I'm using M/S datastore. I think HR may be better, but I don't want to migrate now. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send

Re: [google-appengine] Should developers pay for the useless instances? Can we set max instances to 1?

2012-07-11 Thread Rerngvit Yanggratoke
The feature can be optional, right? People who want unbounded number of instances can disable that feature. To me, it doesn't make sense that it is impossible to limit number of active instances when you are paying for that. On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 8:06 AM, alex wrote: > What's the point in usin