Hi Rori, We haven't be able to reproduce the problem, would you be willing to go to this issue to fill in your browser information and the user you were using to try to do this: http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=5751
Thanks! Greg On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 7:47 PM, Rori Stumpf <[email protected]> wrote: > > That's how I *thought* it would work too, by when trying to change > "Max Idle Instances" to 1 or 2, the setting does not stick - it is > flipped back to "automatic" after clicking the save button. So "always > on" would cost at least $1411yr. I probably have to switch to a more > responsive platform. > > > On Sep 6, 7:37 pm, Barry Hunter <[email protected]> wrote: > > One thing to realise about the before and after 'prediction', it just > > shows what the cost would be at the current settings. > > > > With a few simple tweaks to the settings for the application, you can > > probably reduce the price substantially. > > > > http://code.google.com/appengine/articles/managing-resources.html > > > > (eg, 'always on' means you have 3 instances always running. With the > > settings you can bring it down so that there are only instances being > > spun up to serve requests. Can make it so there is still an instance > > ready to serve request - ie one instance 'always on' - which would be > > your free instance. Then when you have spikes of traffic, you would > > pay for extra instances. These might well fit in the $9 month minimum > > spend anyway. ) > > -- > 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.
