I still think its a good idea! I think it is such a good idea, that I might talk about it on our blog tomorrow ;)
Greg On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 12:10 PM, Stephen <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 7:17 PM, Jon McAlister <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I understand that the worry, and I agree we should do better. There > > are indeed several things which can be happening here. The usual > > suspects are request spike, app moved to another machine, or datastore > > latency spike, but there are other things that can trigger this as > > well. Basically, it's actually a complex distributed system under the > > hood, but we're trying hard to make it appear to not be. But at places > > like this, details are bleeding through the abstraction layer. > > One way to fix some of these problems would be to raise the free quota > to 25 instance hours. Greg D thought this was a good idea when the new > pricing was first announced, but it seems to have been forgotten > about: > > On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 4:55 PM, Gregory D'alesandre <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 1:57 AM, 风笑雪 <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> Hi Greg, > >> > >> Can you raise On-demand Frontend Instances free quota to 25 Instance > Hours > >> per day? > >> > >> The small apps have very low traffics in average, but sometime (maybe > >> several minutes) it may use more than 1 instances to handle burst > traffics, > >> so that they will got OverQuotaErrors at the end of the day. > > > > Its a good point, we'll look into this. Thanks for the suggestion! > > > > Greg > > Another way to fix some of this might be to enable people to allocate > resources within the free budget allowance themselves. So for example, > some of the 9 hours currently available for backends could be used for > front ends, or vice versa. Arguably, it would better highlight some of > the advantages of the billing interface. > > -- > 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.
