On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 2:50:11 AM UTC+8, barryhunter wrote: > > > > > On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 6:34 PM, Tapir <[email protected] <javascript:>>wrote: > >> >> >> If my website needs 150 VPS's to run, I would NEVER consider using GAE at >> all! >> Assume the 150 VPS's are the lowest end Linode VPS, which is more >> powerful than GAE B8 instance type. >> > > But it wouldn't need 150 GAE front end instances. Those VPS's are having > to emulate all the parts of the AppEngine Stack. > > You wouldnt need to dedicate any instances, to be a load balancer (comes > free with AppEngine). Wouldnt need any for memcache (again there is a free > version). Wouldn't need any to run couchdb (have the datastore). >
The datastore is not free on GAE. > None to run ElasticSearch (have the Search API). > The ElasticSearch is not free on GAE. > WOuldnt need any logging servers (have the Logs API). > The logging server is not free on GAE. > Wouldnt need any management nodes (appengine.google.com). Wouldn't need > to keep any warm spares (they always available). etc. > > So you might be able run the same application with say 20 'normal' F1 > instances. > > > Plucking arbitary numbers of the air here, but the point is you need to > consider a lot more variables. Its not as clear cut as you make it out to > be. > All what you say can't change the fact that GAE charges too much but cost not very much. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
