Re: Google App Engine Leaving Preview

[Joshua Smith]

This sounds like something I want to do:

If you sign up for billing or update your budget between now and October 31st we will give you a $50 credit.

I already am set for billing, and I don't want to change my allocations.  What do I do to ensure I don't miss out on the credit?

-Joshua

[Gregory D'alesandre]

Hi Joshua, if you want to take advantage of that credit, just update any allocation limit.  Pretty much any change you make to your billing should trigger that.

Greg

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[Joshua Smith]

How can I tell that it took?  I don't see any mention of a credit on the various control panel screens.

[Gregory D'alesandre]

On your Billing History you will see a ($50) charge which means a $50 credit.  If you don't see this, mail me your appid and I can look into it.

Greg

[Tim Hoffman]

HI Greg, 

I did a budget re-alloction - shows up in billing history, but no $50 credit is listed.  (appid svfalf)

Also I turned off always on, and set max idle to 2, and most of the time, there is only a single instance present, 

I would have expected to see a significant drop on the predicted daily spend, as compared with always on.

The app doesn't even reach any of the lowered free allocation limits.

Below makes sense for always on.  But I with a single instance and not much traffic something is up.

I did make the change early into that days stats collection, so it maybe will sort it self out.  WIll have another look tomorrow

and see if there is a difference, otherwise it shows 1, there is a problem with the predicated calculation or

2.  I have no understanding of the new pricing model ;-)  As the most hours I can foresee being used is around 30-40 hours.

Resource	Used	Free	Billable	Charge
Frontend Instance Hours: $0.04/Hour	93.19	24.00	69.19	$2.77

The use of instance hours, really suggest the dashboard graph actually show accumulated instance hours per hour, rather than or in addition to the number instances up.  Its a little hard looking at the graph of instances to work out what you instance hours charge will be. However looking at the graph tells me that I am definately only down in the ~30 hours territory.

Thanks

Tim

[Joshua Smith]

I got the $50 to take by adding $0.01 to my budget. Simply reallocating within the budget didn't give me the credit.

-Joshua

[Joshua Smith]

In case anyone here didn't catch the bold type in google's announcement, I strongly recommend you do this:

For each App you have:
Billing Settings:
If not enabled:
enable at the minimum $2
else:
increase your budget by $0.01

That gives you a $50 credit. When they turn on the new prices (looking like October), you'll have a couple of weeks to tune stuff as that $50 burns up.

If you have any M/S apps that you will probably want to turn into HR apps eventually, create the HR apps NOW, so they can get that $50 credit as well. (You don't need to do the M/S -> HR port now, just create the HR app now.)

Personally, I'm expecting to burn some of that $50 on each end doing the migration of data, which apparently chews a ton of CPU; but I'm waiting for the new migration tool to come out of beta first.

-Joshua

[Tapir]

I increased my budget by $0.01 but didn't get the $50 credit.

[John Patterson]

You must increase it past your current authorized weekly limit so that you are taken to Google Checkout.

[jay]

This is not working for me. Who should I contact?

[Gregory D'alesandre]

Please contact me offlist with your appid and I can look into it.

Thanks,

Greg

On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 6:14 PM, jay <kybur...@gmail.com> wrote:

This is not working for me. Who should I contact?

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