Pricing model seems off for CMS usage

[Gary Mort]

Looking at Cloud SQL the pricing model seems off for such usage.

Assume an app such as Wordpress, Drupal, Joomla, etc deployed to Google App Engine for PHP.  

Assuming it is a small website which will have sporadic traffic, it will cost: .36/day  or 10$/month just to host the mostly dormant mysql database.

This is about the same cost as a low end virtual host, which will still be faster.

It seems to me there should be some option for hibernating an SQL instance and then re-enabling it - that way a mostly dormant site could leave the engine hibernating at the cost of a delay for the first visitor.

[Rob Clevenger]

Cloud sql bills per hour, not per day, starting at $0.025 per hour (see https://developers.google.com/cloud-sql/docs/billing#per_use)

If your site caches and doesn't hit the database, it won't spin up the database. And after 15 minutes of non-use, it'll spin down (https://developers.google.com/cloud-sql/faq#how_usage_calculated)

Rob

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[Gary Mort]

On Tuesday, August 6, 2013 5:41:19 PM UTC-4, Rob wrote:

Cloud sql bills per hour, not per day, starting at $0.025 per hour (see https://developers.google.com/cloud-sql/docs/billing#per_use)

If your site caches and doesn't hit the database, it won't spin up the database. And after 15 minutes of non-use, it'll spin down (https://developers.google.com/cloud-sql/faq#how_usage_calculated)

That is cool!  I missed that completely.  So AppEngine will spin the database up/down as needed...a 15 minute buffer is more than acceptable there.

[Vladimir Ralev]

Be careful with connection pooling and health checks though. They will keep your DB alive forever. And some frameworks have the connection pooling turned on by default.

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