Re:App Engine charges $6,500 to update a ListProperty on 14....
by bemmu on Thursday January 05, 2012 @10:16PM
(#3431781)
I love GAE, but deleting stuff is really the major WTF point.
I am about to shut down one application that declined in popularity, because it costs me $20 / week to run it and revenue just dropped under $20 / week. The cost is not from instance hours, but purely from the stored data. Deleting the data from the data store would cost more than I could recoup, so that is not an option either.
Also I really feel frustrated giving hours of thought to something that should be a really simple operation. Perhaps .delete() should be free? After all, when I shut down the app, Google does delete everything for free.
Re:App Engine charges $6,500 to update a ListProperty on 14....
by jdeibele on Friday January 06, 2012 @12:40AM
(#3432137)
My suggestion would be to turn off billing. That's what I did when the price went up on an app I had running and I didn't want to deal with deleting the data.
I am about to shut down one application that declined in popularity, because it costs me $20 / week to run it and revenue just dropped under $20 / week. The cost is not from instance hours, but purely from the stored data. Deleting the data from the data store would cost more than I could recoup, so that is not an option either.
Also I really feel frustrated giving hours of thought to something that should be a really simple operation. Perhaps .delete() should be free? After all, when I shut down the app, Google does delete everything for free.