Really? We're supposed to throttle our visitors?

[GAEfan]

I remember back to the very first Google I/O, when App Engine was
brand new. During the keynotes, both Vic Gundotra and Marissa Mayer
gave inspiring talks about how Google's mission was to enhance the
user experience, to speed everything up, add millions of new
applications. And that, even by doing these for free, Google would
make a larger profit by taking the same cut from a larger pie. More
apps = more users = more traffic = more ads served = more $$$.

The concentration was on the user experience, and thus the quantity,
quality, and speed of services.

Now, Google is asking us to throttle back the user experience (via the
Instances & Latency sliders) to avoid exorbitant hosting fees.
Really? Did Vic and Marissa sign off on this?

I have an app that uses about 1 CPU hour per day, and serves about
250MB per day. It has always been in the free category, even though I
have billing enabled. In the "Estimated Charges Under New Pricing",
it looks like that will be going to about $70/month.

Now, I appreciate App Engine (notice my moniker), and do not expect it
to be free. But, an app like this should cost well under $20/month to
host. With all the optimizations I have already done, a fair price
should be closer to the $9 minimum. So, yes, I think $70/month is
exorbitant. And that is just one of my apps.

The only way to get this down to a reasonable amount, I will need to
get in the app settings and make the visitors wait longer, perhaps
even serving up a few 500's. Really??

[Angke Chen]

At least that's the route I'll have to take for my free users. Before
concurrent Python 2.7 releases. Or before I move to Node.js on micro
EC2 with SimpleDB: one year of this configuration costs the same as
one instance running 2mo on GAE.

Angke

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[awx]

I agree. This new pricing is pushing small sites in the wrong
direction.

For a small site like mine, GAE has moved from a big help to a big
hindrance. A $6.95 per month hosting plan on a typical webhost would
be overkill for me. But with the new pricing, I'm looking at $15-20
per month for GAE.

This instance pricing for small sites hasn't been thought through by
Google.