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Re:A few adjustments to App Engine’s upcoming pricing changes by StavrosK on Friday September 09, 2011 @07:08PM (#2980192)
> It's my understanding that in order to take advantage of scaling, user will have to pay a minimum $9/month (or whatever it is) fee. However, free users are resource capped. However, if you pay for scalability, but never need it for some reason, or only need it a couple times a year, you may as well have just stayed free -- otherwise you're out $108/year!

Looks like they're retiring that. Instead, you'll have "min active instances", which you can set to 1 to always have a multi-threaded instance preloaded, and still stay under the free tier, while only paying for anything that goes over it.

Win/win, it seems.

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Re:A few adjustments to App Engine’s upcoming pricing changes by bane on Friday September 09, 2011 @08:02PM (#2980293)
Interesting...our new monthly bill is showing a strange ~$.30/day charge increase over everything else which averages out to about $9/mo. I'm looking forward to them fixing the new billing preview a bit more and will take another look.

If you are right, their solution sounds optimal. It's been my understanding that what the $9/mo was really for was the SLA, but frankly I could give a hoot about the SLA, but I need the instance scalability.

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Re:A few adjustments to App Engine’s upcoming pricing changes by StavrosK on Friday September 09, 2011 @08:33PM (#2980362)
The $9, as far as I can recall, was for the three always-on instances you got. Since they're retiring those, allowing you to set your own, you can take that off the bill. It sounds to me like you can be on the free plan with enabled billing and only pay for overages.
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