Isn't the end of point 4.4 applicable here... "or otherwise access the Service in a manner intended to avoid incurring fees"
...as you are avoiding paying the $9/month for an always running instance? Phil On 12 July 2011 08:10, Max <[email protected]> wrote: > Agree with your point on tragedy of the commons. The thing is this is not a > new concept. It's already a common practice among many appengine developers. > Without my application, one can still write a dummy cron in 5 mins. Given > that they (unfortunately including me at the moment) will do it anyway, my > app is saving 5 min dev time and 1 cron job execution per minute for each > single url. > > Of course, this is definitely a suboptimal solution. But it should be > Google rather than us to do something on this. I don't think Google has to > build some intelligence to detect this behavior, but at least they should > give use some guideline in forum or GAE document. For example, multiple > deployment of same app is explicitly documented > here<http://code.google.com/appengine/terms.html>(point > 4.4), but I can't find any term applicable to my case. Instead I saw this > same topic been discussed here for many times but no Googler ever give a > negative comment. I will disable my app if I get guideline officially or > un-officially. > > From other side, I don't think it's fair for a site gain a better > performance just because more users are using it. From my point of view, > such regenerative feedback is even worse than your tragedy of the commons. > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-appengine/-/xFonPhtvbLEJ. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
