New appengine pricing

[JohnnyG]

Up to now I've had a free ride on appengine, which has been great --
thanks google.

I was happy with the resource restrictions that came with a free app.

The new pricing looks like it would cost me about $1 per day for my
main app. I suspect with a bit of tweaking I could eliminate that
cost, but the fact is I now have an app where I have to monitor the
usage >in case< I run up a bill.

Sorry google, but that doesn't work for me.

It makes more sense to go back to django and run the apps on a box in
my home.

I've disabled my apps as of today.

[JohnnyG]

Oh, I forgot to say -- one of the apps was providing live bus data on
Ottawa's buses.

Sadly, OC Transpo pulled the feed of live data back in January, to
work on a more reliable feed.

They just announced today that a new feed of live data should be
available soon.

... but with the new pricing, I doubt I'll be running the app on
appengine.

Great timing Google!

[psm]

i'm sorry to see you go.  our previous free app levels allowed for quite significant web sites to run for free.  which is nice, of course, but not tenable.  i don't think $30/month total operating cost for this service is too much for you to pay for running the service you describe, and i'm sorry to hear you think the service isn't worth that much to you.

[swf...@gmail.com]

thanks for following this up.

I had two apps on app engine.  One was a simple app I used to run soccer result prediction leagues for some friends -- only a handful of users.   I used this as an opportunity to learn how app engine works etc.

The other app was providing real time public transport information for Ottawa's buses.   This app has been in limbo since the beginning of the year, since OC Transpo switched off the feed of the live bus data.   Ironically, the same day Google announced the new app pricing, OC Transpo announced that the live bus data feed should be back in a couple of months.

Both of these apps were primarily an opportunity for me to learn app engine.  I am a software consultant by profession and am hoping to do work with some non-profits in the future -- app engine seemed a good choice as a replacement for many of these organizations applications.

However, neither of these apps is worth me paying $30 a month, given I can run them from home on my own server for essentially nothing.   Sure, if usage on the bus data app goes up then I may re-consider app engine.   However, had the current pricing been in place initially I would never have bothered with it in the first place.   Further, given that I will probably use django for any future apps I'm more likely to go and find a hosting service for django apps, rather than have to port my apps to app engine.

I hope you understand my position on this and recognize that your pricing changes is likely to impact adoption of app engine in a negative way.

John

On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 6:16 PM, psm <p...@google.com> wrote:

i'm sorry to see you go.  our previous free app levels allowed for quite significant web sites to run for free.  which is nice, of course, but not tenable.  i don't think $30/month total operating cost for this service is too much for you to pay for running the service you describe, and i'm sorry to hear you think the service isn't worth that much to you.

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[de Witte]

Leaving the home box running for the entire day, will cost you more, and you have to monitor it on a regular basis.

Go to the setting page of your account, move those slider controls, disable billing, and you will do just fine. :-)

No need to touch your code. 

[swf...@gmail.com]

The home box is running anyway.

But thanks for the advice about the sliders.  I will take a look.

John

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