This whole thread is an excellent example of why I'm not at all enthusiastic about the new pricing.
Mike is 100% correct, this behavior is amazing unintuative and confusing. If we will be paying around $60 per month per instance, why would we ever want one to sit idle? Shouldn't App Engine serve the incoming request with an idle instance and spin up a new instance to be in reserve, if needed? Also, if I understand correctly, if I set min idle instances to, say, 5. It will nearly always have 5 instance sitting there doing nothing. If one does get used, it will spin up another immediately. Is the point of min idle instances to handle bursts of traffic (though it isn't clear ut does that either since it may well send requests to new instances)? Otherwise I can hardly see the point in ever having more than 1 idle instance. Robert On Jul 29, 2011 10:24 AM, "Ikai Lan (Google)" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Mike, you aren't being charged for these instances in the current billing scheme. Because you're being charged for CPU hours, if you use 5 CPU hours, whether those CPU hours are served by 100 instances or 10 instances - you pay the same. You would only pay more under the new (as of yet to be launched) pricing scheme where you would pay per instance. We're working on solutions that should make this both more transparent and configurable by then. > > Ikai Lan > Developer Programs Engineer, Google App Engine > Blog: http://googleappengine.blogspot.com > Twitter: http://twitter.com/app_engine > Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/appengine > > > > On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 10:14 AM, Mike Lawrence <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> thanks for clearing that up. >> I'm sure a lot of people will be confused by this. >> Maybe add a $ next to instances that we are being charged for so it's obvious? >> Thanks for your excellent support >> >> -- >> 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/-/4x8OnZt-sSUJ. >> >> 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. -- 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.
