{"id":1328,"date":"2009-04-09T14:03:17","date_gmt":"2009-04-09T13:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/1328-google-app-engine-to-be-less-free-quotas-reduced-from-may-25th.html"},"modified":"2009-04-09T14:03:17","modified_gmt":"2009-04-09T13:03:17","slug":"google-app-engine-to-be-less-free-quotas-reduced-from-may-25th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/1328-google-app-engine-to-be-less-free-quotas-reduced-from-may-25th.html","title":{"rendered":"Google App Engine to be less free: quotas reduced from May 25th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m blogging this because I\u2019ve only just noticed it; I\u2019m not sure when it was announced. From 25th May, Google is reducing the resource quotas allowed for App Engine applications, before you have start paying. The question \u201cby how much\u201d is tough to answer, because the quota system is complex. <a href=\"http:\/\/code.google.com\/appengine\/docs\/quotas.html\" target=\"_blank\">Here\u2019s the relevant document<\/a>; there are quotas for bandwidth in and out, internal API calls, CPU time, data sent and received from the internal datastore, emails sent, and use of the image and caching services. <\/p>\n<p>Still, what caught my eye is this:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The new free quota levels to take effect on May 25th will be as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>CPU Time: 6.5 hours of CPU time per day <\/li>\n<li>Bandwidth: 1 gigabyte of data transferred in and out of the application per day <\/li>\n<li>Stored Data &amp; Email Recipients: unchanged<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Currently, you are allowed 10 gigabytes in and 10 gigabytes out per day. So it looks to me as if <em>by some measures<\/em> the quotas have been reduced to one tenth of what they were; unless the new limit aggregates incoming and outgoing transfer, in which case it would be one twentieth.<\/p>\n<p>The spin is that:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>We believe these new levels will continue to serve a reasonably efficient application around 5 million page views per month, completely free.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It\u2019s true that the old limits are generous. Still, the real point here is not to build your business on \u201cfree\u201d services; at any moment the terms can change, sometimes severely. While the same is true of paid-for services, it is more difficult to make extreme changes.<\/p>\n<p>It is also a reminder of Google\u2019s usual tactic, to buy market share with generous initial terms. Remember all those <a href=\"http:\/\/checkout.google.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Google Checkout<\/a> incentives when the company was fighting to win customers from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paypal.com\" target=\"_blank\">PayPal<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m actually more comfortable with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/aws\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon<\/a>\u2019s approach to web services: nothing free, but commodity pricing from the get-go.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:bbd94683-64fa-41e3-82f6-251dc3699f15\" class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/google\" rel=\"tag\">google<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/amazon\" rel=\"tag\">amazon<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/quotas\" rel=\"tag\">quotas<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/google+app+engine\" rel=\"tag\">google app engine<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m blogging this because I\u2019ve only just noticed it; I\u2019m not sure when it was announced. From 25th May, Google is reducing the resource quotas allowed for App Engine applications, before you have start paying. The question \u201cby how much\u201d is tough to answer, because the quota system is complex. Here\u2019s the relevant document; there &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/1328-google-app-engine-to-be-less-free-quotas-reduced-from-may-25th.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Google App Engine to be less free: quotas reduced from May 25th<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,44,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google","category-internet","category-web-authoring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}