Hey Rori, I don't want you to drop GAE for many reasons too :) This bug won't affect actual billing but rather the current comparison bills. We are working on a fix right now and once we have something worth talking about we'll let everyone know.
Greg On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 2:59 PM, Rori Stumpf <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm *really* hoping you can figure something out. I really don't want > to drop GAE for many reasons, but I won't have much choice if I'm > forced to pay for 3 "always on" instances that are not needed. If my > new app gets enough users then it will make complete sense from a cost > standpoint, not to mention all the other advantages of the platform. > But what about my costs while I am building the customer base... > should I find some other solution that will smooth out the cost curve? > (and most likely end up staying there). > > Of course, if the spin-up's were more predictable, then I could live > with that and would not need "always on". But my current app needs to > (preferably) respond within 2 secs. And 1 instance would be just fine > for that. > > Also, as I mentioned before, I think many GAE users (including myself) > would prefer affordable pricing for low volume apps, as that > encourages experimentation and proof-of-concept testing on the > platform. In turn, that should translate into much broader adoption of > the GAE platform. > > Doesn't Google want to lock startups into GAE at the embryonic (i.e. > no money, just an idea) stage? ;-) > > > > On Sep 6, 11:45 pm, "Gregory D'alesandre" <[email protected]> wrote: > > I think we've tracked the bug down. We are currently treating Always-On > as > > if it is 3 min idle instances. When you try to set Max Idle instances to > > less than 3 (which wouldn't make much sense if you had known you had set > min > > idle instances to 3), the Admin Console doesn't let you and > (unfortunately) > > doesn't give a good error as to why. So, you can set it to 3, but as > long > > as Always-On is still on it won't let you set it to less than that. > > > > We'll see if we can figure out a way around this... > > > > Sorry about that! > > -- > 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.
