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About where do you usually hit the limit for free usage? Are we talking hundreds of daily visitors? Thousands? Tens of thousands? I know this varies heavily dep
by micaelwidell 17y ago
About where do you usually hit the limit for free usage? Are we talking hundreds of daily visitors? Thousands? Tens of thousands? I know this varies heavily depending on your code, but does anyone have a good rule of thumb?
- jeff18 17y agoWe rarely go over the free limit -- I think we've stayed under $10-20 for the entire year, while serving up several million pages. Most of this is due to bandwidth overages from our comic: http://www.wolfire.com/comic http://www.wolfire.com/comic The times we are charged tend to be for burst traffic when something gets picked up on Digg or Reddit. Recently, one of our blog posts was featured on Digg, Reddit, Slashdot, etc. at the same time and Google dutifully served up a couple hundred thousand visits over the course of a few days. They charged us about a nickel! Granted everything is nicely cached so we were not doing much heavy processing. It definitely depends on your web app. If you can cache it, App Engine is essentially free. If you are doing something CPU intensive for every visitor, it's going to be expensive.
- micaelwidell 17y agoThanks! One more question: Had any problems with using third-party Python libraries? I mean like PIL, cjson or stuff like that? Heard something about C-based libraries not working?
- skybrian 17y agoNo, you can't install your own C libraries. There's an imaging library built in: http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/images/usingimages.html http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/images/usingima...