You can if your adsense revenue is much than your gae app cost.

On Sep 3, 4:31 pm, Gabor Lenard <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am late to the party. I have a daily job and I just started working on a 
> simple app in my spare time as a hobby project: people can create topics, add 
> comments and vote. I'm doing my best to optimize it for the hosting fee.
>
> My wishful thinking was that I develop this simple app, enjoy it with my 
> family and friends, and let anyone else use it. If some day it becomes 
> popular, no problem, it will be scaled automatically, and I will include some 
> ads, probably AdSense, which makes the app ugly but I could pay the hosting 
> fee from it. After reading recent posts here from existing GAE app owners and 
> Google employes I am not sure anymore in anything.
>
> Now, my question is quite foolish, because you obviously cannot estimate my 
> hosting fee but is there any chance that I could pay my GAE hosting fee for a 
> really simple application from AdSence revenue (without having to pay a lot 
> of money upfront)?
>
> Or should I just make my app private and hope that the hosting fee will 
> remain reasonable for my family and friends?
>
> Or should I abandon GAE entirely as it is just for enterprises and look for 
> another cloud company?
>
> Thanks,
> Gabor

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