Re:The hidden cost of Google App Engine
by kolinko on Sunday August 19, 2012 @07:29AM
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Well, you can't get thousands of bucks of costs in GAE if you don't set limits that high.
The way I do it: I've set the daily limit to something really high, but something that won't make me go bankrupt (like $100/$200, while I usually spend $5/day).
I don't worry about spikes in payments - as the article says, it's not worth to waste my time analysing all the border cases. If a border case happens, I'll deal with it then.
It's much worse with Amazon Web Services which has no such easily set limits. I've heard about a guy getting slapped thousands of bucks bacuse of bandwith usage due to some bug.
The way I do it: I've set the daily limit to something really high, but something that won't make me go bankrupt (like $100/$200, while I usually spend $5/day). I don't worry about spikes in payments - as the article says, it's not worth to waste my time analysing all the border cases. If a border case happens, I'll deal with it then.
It's much worse with Amazon Web Services which has no such easily set limits. I've heard about a guy getting slapped thousands of bucks bacuse of bandwith usage due to some bug.