When first seeing the new pricing I was very upset. From watching this group I wasn't the only one. However, at the risk of angering some I'd like to report my findings.
When first seeing the new pricing my first idea was to change providers. Not only to save some money, but also in fear of the fact that GAE may very well be over in 3 years with so many others leaving due to the new pricing. So my first stop was AWS. With so much buzz surrounding aws plus so many companies using it they must be a great product. However you have to be careful to look under the covers. GAE is a PaaS. That's why I love GAE. Everything is taken care of for you. However some of the tasks are not that hard so for now we won't factor that into the price. AWS has micro instances available for a pretty cheap price. But, that's not all you need. You need a datastore. So you either run it on your micro instance, using a good chunk of resources or you pay for RDS/SimpleDB. So if we choose simpleDB (GAE made everyone fall in love with NoSQL) you now have 2 products to pay for. What about memcache? Well AWS just introduced Elasticache. Another bill, and not a cheap one I might add. What about map reduce? That will be an additional fee. And I'm not going to get into scaling as I really don't personally need it. But for a fee AWS has elastic load balancers... So let's stick with PaaS. Heroku sounds good. They are suppose to be getting python soon! 1 web dyno + 1 worker dyno + 20 gig of shared database storage = $50/month. Wowsers! What about cron? That will be $3/month. Memcache can run $20-$3500 / month! These guys charge you for everything! So many of these things are included with GAE. What about dotcloud? Well their first paid tier starts at $99/month. So I'm not out to anger the community. I realize everyone's app is different and some people's bills have gone up 100x, etc. I just wanted to point out that finding a better deal may not be so easy. I really hope that people stay on GAE as I hope it can continue to run for many more years. Oh yeah, not to mention what a cool platform this is to develop on. Task queues, cron, deployments, memcache, logging (I forgot to mention that Heroku charges for logging). And it's all managed for you. No need to wake up at 2am because your server is down. Or your mysql table is corrupt... I'm just saying. -- 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.
