Blobstore for free custumers

Dani Shaulov

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Sep 1, 2011, 9:04:21 AM9/1/11

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In the current model blobstore is only on for users with billing turned on, but on this model you could just enable billing but if you stay under the limits it is still free.

Can free users access blobstore on the new model or will const 9$ just for the abillity to use it? (even if the app uses just a few % of the free quotas on everything?)

Ubaldo Huerta

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Sep 5, 2011, 1:34:35 PM9/5/11

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Yes, I just had the same issue. I have a "staging" site that is simply a way to test the app in the production environment but with different datastore. In order to test the blobstore related functionality I need to enable billing but since now enabling billing will soon costs $9/month my staging environment is no longer free. I'm taking about 100s requests per month. Not bad ROI for google. Down the drain the idea that app engine was design with the little guy in mind.

It's pretty disappointing that this scenario hasn't been considered.

Barry Hunter

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Sep 5, 2011, 1:48:05 PM9/5/11

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Answered here:
http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine/browse_thread/thread/a3e92ad8e41720a0/7963d0dab5e35d05?lnk=raot

Yes blobstore will be available for free customers.

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