I have just seen the estimated for the new pricing model and to be
honest: I am horrified. I have spent a lot of time learning python and
the AppEngine platform because it seemed like a cheap and trustable
solution. I agree it was almost too cheap but a 17x increase is really
a bit much for me.
My websites extensively use memcache to store stats. Granted I get a
lot of requests per day (about 1 million) but I am still baffled by
the price increase. All my pages do is get 7 parameters from a get
request and store them in memcache, eventually writing to DataStore
every 15 minutes. I spent a lot of time optimizing for memcache
because DataStore writes where expensive...
My stats website will now cost me 7.05 $ per day as opposed to 0.41 $
before. I am afraid I am not going to pay 211 $ monthly (instead of 12
$). just to have my daily stats. I am just glad my business doesn't
depend on my stats and I'll just trash them. All I will have lost are
countless hours...
My company's website (
http://smallte.ch hosted on
websmalltech.appspot.com) will now cost me about 144$ monthly. It's a
website with rather low traffic with just one mini webpage that gets
requested a lot (from memcache) by my iPhone apps. It was basically
free before if it hadn't been for the 9$ "always on" option I had.
Prior to switching to AppEngine this website was handled by a 19.99 €
server from OVH.com and it worked well. I just changed for the
security of being hosted on Google and to get rid of Linux
maintenance.
My
smallte.ch website has 6 instances (3 resident doing nothing). How
the can six instances at 29 mb each (totaling 174 mb of memory usage)
cost so much money ?
How can these instances cost 140 $/month?
https://skitch.com/smalltech/fipfa/instances-smallte.ch
I mean seriously for the 100 Euros per month I can get this machine:
http://www.ovh.com/fr/serveurs_dedies/eg_ssd.xml.
Yes that's 24 Gb, not 0.174 gb.
Sure it's not in the cloud but man aren't we being extorted here ? Am
I the only one seeing such an increase ?