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Re:The day I was DoSed by Google by fragmede on Thursday March 12, 2015 @02:25PM (#9192723)
Sorry, I still don't get it.

How does not charging for outgoing network traffic make computation free? You'd still be paying for everything else, eg the instances themselves, datastore storage, read/write datastore calls, using the logs API, which means mining bitcoins wouldn't be free.

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Re:The day I was DoSed by Google by brianpgordon on Thursday March 12, 2015 @03:46PM (#9193295)
OP's concern isn't with network traffic, it's with GAE compute time. Googlebot keeps causing instances to run.

If requests initiated by Googlebot were free to run, you could make a giant website full of garbage and use each free request to spend 50ms mining bitcoin.

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