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So many negative views of GAE, I have to add our, overwhelmingly positive, experience. We were paying $200/month for a load balanced EC2 setup in 2011, that's
by davidjgraph 11y ago
So many negative views of GAE, I have to add our, overwhelmingly positive, experience.
We were paying $200/month for a load balanced EC2 setup in 2011, that's for around 2k unique daily users. The load balancer kept on false triggering new instances, so we went to GAE in 2012.
Since then our uptime has been horrifically good, heavily thanks for GAE, trashing that of our competition, who mostly use AWS.
Last month we paid $150 for everything on GAE, traffic, CPU, etc. G-Analytics shows a peak of 54k daily uniques last week. All the scaling is dealt with for us, we can handle literally any traffic peak. i.e. x27 more traffic, lower cost, better uptime, spending virtual zero time looking at the operations side of things.
This is a mission critical app, although, we've never invoked support, so I can't comment on that side.
- stephenitis 11y agodid software change to account for efficiencies?
- davidjgraph 11y agoNo, the basic architecture hasn't changed, but the app does a lot, lot more than it did in the AWS days.
- latchkey 11y agoWithout GAE/GCP my business wouldn't be where it is today and in such a short amount of time. I can't reveal numbers, but our bill and usage is significantly higher than yours. But, it is still just a rounding error compared with our revenue. Thanks to GAE, we focus our work on real features for our partners, which translates directly into profit. A post on this topic that I made a month ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11159840 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11159840 Thanks again Google! =)
- PostThisTooFast 11y agoAmazon is a mess. But should we care if Node is on Google? What about this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4495101 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4495101