A package based pricing as alternative

[Frank Müller]

Hmm, my yesterdays post regarding the new pricing hasn't been publish, strange.

Hi Google,

how would it be if you would provide a package based pricing as alternative. It could look like:

- Free like package S or M for non-commercial projects,

- Package S with one non always-on instance, 1 GB database etc.

- Package M with one always-on instance, 2 GB database etc.

- Package L with two always-on instances, 5 GB database etc.

- Package XL with four always-on instances, 10 GB database etc.

- Unlimited like your new pricing model

Together with fair prices it would make the calculation by far more simple. Additionally there should be notifications when a limit will be reached seen and the switching between packages should be pretty simple.

The current complexity makes it hard to decide for the platform. I would like to implement two application, it least one will be non-commercial. I already started development in Go. But with the current pricing I don't know which costs I've got to expect, it's very hard. And the lock-in to the API doesn't make this decision easier. At least a clear pricing would help.

mue