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.
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