Pricing for a AngularJS front-end / Java backend app?

[Keith Chima]

1) If I wanted to host an app like this, would I need to pay .05*24*30 * 2 (instances) = $76 minimum per month for this, or are there key elements that might fall under the free option? TBH it's a bit difficult for me to understand.

2) Do I need to do anything special to enable the Google App Engine CDN? I aggregate articles and display the picture (through a URL, not stored locally) cropped and scaled down to a 70x70 icon. Can the CDN help serve smaller icons instead for this dynamic content?

Thanks very much,

-Keith Chima

[Patrice (Cloud Platform Support)]

Hi Keith,

Unfortunately, depending on the app you do, prices can change drastically. You do have free tiers for instance hours (28 for front end and 8 for back ends), so the cost would not be 76$ per month, but it also depends on your instance type (F2 cost twice as much as F1, etc)

Without a more in depth idea of how many instances you need, what you will process, what backend-data you need, if you save information (and if you do, in which service), this is literally impossible to answer accurately. I can suggest our calculator, but you still need to know a lot about your application to get a good idea of your price.

As for your second question, it really depends what you do again. Since Google App Engine does not have a product called "Google App Engine CDN", I will assume you mean either webhosting with Compute Engine, serving static content with App Engine, or configuring a Google Cloud Storage bucket as a website. In any case, as long as you serve static content, no it won't work with these as they work purely staticly. You definitely could setup a full App Engine application, where you can serve images and resize it on the fly.

I hope I clarified your questions. If you still have more, feel free to ask me, I'll be happy to help further.

Cheers!

[Tapir]

The cost of AppEngine java projects is much larger than AppEngine golang projects.
To avoid the cold start problem. java GAE project need more instances than golang projects, for golang projects have no the cold start problem.

Don't use java for your AppEngine projects.

- by an experienced GAE user

[Patrice (Cloud Platform Support)]

Hi Tapir,

GREAT contribution, thank you for your input.

It is true that golang has less issues starting quickly, and generally uses less resources, so it does indeed come out cheaper. Especially now that Go has been taken out of Beta, it's even better news!

Cheers