New GAE Pricing

[Seymores]

I don't know about you guys but does the new pricing looks
disturbingly expensive in the long run?
http://www.google.com/enterprise/appengine/appengine_pricing.html

The thing about GAE that bugs me all these while is that we cannot be
sure of the actual pricing we are going to have to pay but since it's
going to be cheap so it's not a big worry. But with the new pricing,
you can really burn a hole.

So what do you guys think?

[Guillaume Laforge]

It's still a bit early to tell, but I was also dissapointed when I heard about the new pricing scheme.

For the smallish apps I'm developing, I think the "free" tier should still be pretty much free.

But as soon as an application becomes serious enough, I may be hitting some walls (some quotas) beyond which paying will be required to have the service still available, and then, better have a good idea for monetizing that idea that becomes successful enough to bring that traffic.

For now, I'm still unsure how this will impact me.

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[atomi]

I feel the same way: unsure - and that's the problem.

If Google were to announce that the $9 a month would include an additional instance or if the free plan were allowed to scale, I might be a little less distraught. I have read that each instance hour would be billed by quarter fragments, but what the criteria that triggers a new instance is  - I don't know. And none of this information is official.

So, EC2 has small instances as low as $0.02 per hour and Rackspace has a $0.015 per hour instances; both having root privileges. Cloudbees has a free tier PaaS as well. Yet Google wants to charge $0.08 per hour for each of their instances that will only work to serve a single application (hopefully Google will offer smaller sized instances).

I understand Google needs to make money, but we need all the help we can get. We're the future of our economy and the internet. I've always believed that Google's App Engine was about incentivizing start-ups. That means Google's own success with App Engine depends on our success. 

Some developers have been talking about a "breach of trust" on Google's part, and I feel that as well due in large part to the confusion they've caused. Because not knowing if I should keep working on my app or start migrating to another platform is the worst part.

[Steven]

I hope people are not discouraged from using Gaelyk because of the
pricing changes. I am starting to worry that using groovy with gaelyk
might end up biting me in the long run with potentially higher CPU and
memory usage than a comparable simple Java servlet app.

[atomi]

Here is an updated FAQ for anyone interested in the new pricing model:

https://groups.google.com/d/topic/google-appengine/ob-kMuDAAqc/discussion

It appears that the $9 will now include usage fees.

Some folks that usually would go say $1 or $2 over their quota will still have to pay a minimum of $9 regardless of their usage ($108 a year min), but it's a little better then paying the $9 just for the privilege.

I would have liked it if Google just gave an extra instance for the $9 and allowed customized schedulers but we'll see how all this goes over time.