On Sep 17, 2:36 am, Rachel Gollub <
rac...@gollub.net> wrote:
> I have to say, I went through the same thing. I originally saw my costs go
> up about 8x with the new pricing, so I posted that I was going to look into
> other options. I did, and they seemed comparable, but transferring the
> database was going to be a cost problem. Then we got the news that the
> instance pricing reporting was broken, and the free quotas went up. I
> experimented with instances and the new quotas, and found that with these
> changes (and correct usage reporting), with the new pricing my costs will
> stay flat.
>
> I do totally love Google App Engine, and I was seriously bummed about moving
> -- I'm glad I'll be able to stay, and relieved that the initial scare proved
> to be exaggerated. We're heading into launch soon, and we'll see how the
> numbers change, but I'm much less worried about it than I was. I just
> started a project for a low-traffic site for a corporation, and recommended
> GAE/HR with no real worries.
>
> The only thing I'd ask for is better M/S datastore support. :) It meets our
> needs really well, other than the outages....
>
> -- Rachel
>