Why am I not allowed to reserve backend instance hours?

[Waleed Abdulla]

In billing, I can pre-commit to X instance hours for the week and I get a discounted price, $0.05 per hour as opposed to $0.08. So far so good. 

Recently, I've been moving my tasks and cron jobs to backend instances so that there is a clean separation between what needs to execute right away and what can wait. But then I realized that backend instances don't use the pre-committed hours. So I end up paying $0.08 per hour for B1 backend instances rather than $0.05. 

    It seems that backend instances are a bad deal, and I should move things back to front-end instances to benefit from the discounted price! Am I missing something?

Waleed

[Brandon Wirtz]

You get 28 free hours unless you are only getting a bill for backend hours does it matter if the free hours are for front or back?

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[Waleed Abdulla]

I think you misunderstood the question. I'm not asking about the free hours. I'm asking about the hours I pre-commit to pay for. 

[Kesava Neeli]

Anyoneone from AppEngine has an answer as to when/if they allow reserved hours for backends? We use B4 instances and it's a big cost for us. Didn't realize the reserved hours affected ONLY FE instances. All my backend instance hours are charged at normal rate.

[pdknsk]

http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7411