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Be warned! Google App Engine Pricing has gone up by as much as 500% since Nov 7. The code is based on GAE and you just need be warned that if you spend time and

Be warned! Google App Engine Pricing has gone up by as much as 500% since Nov 7. The code is based on GAE and you just need be warned that if you spend time and build around it, be ready for some crazy billing. I'm talking from personal experience :(

zeratul 15y ago
Yes!!! I was hoping to have pay-per-impression advertisement that would pay the bill but apps which don't offer wordy clutter are not allowed to have ads. I was rejected by adSense, BuySellAds, and adBrite. Sometimes I think we build Internet for robots not for humans. I have ~100 visits per day. That costs me ~$0.10 per day. More details here: https://github.com/entaroadun/hnpickup/wiki/Hacker-News-Pickup-Rate-Web-App-Analytics https://github.com/entaroadun/hnpickup/wiki/Hacker-News-Pick...
- zeratul 15y ago
  Just got an email from Kontera ads: Denial Reason: Insufficient Text. What happen to saying: "picture worth thousand words"?
- lurker17 15y ago
  Put current HN headlines on the page to generate content for ads.
- groby_b 15y ago
  Looking at the details: 3.8 million data store reads for 8,000 visitors seems high. Especially for the kind of data you are serving - it's not rapidly changing. Are you using memcache at all? A quick scan of the source doesn't show any memcache imports, but I just might've missed it. (http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/memcache/usingmemcache.html http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/memcache/usingm...)
  - zeratul 15y ago
    The content is refreshed every 15 min - both database and UI. Probably the production version of the code will get memcache and some other features. Apart of couple suggestions from the discussion here the educational version of hnpickup will be frozen. Although, any simplifications or correction to the code or documentation are very welcome.

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Be warned! Google App Engine Pricing has gone up by as much as 500% since Nov 7. The code is based on GAE and you just need be warned that if you spend time and

by salimmadjd 15y ago

zeratul 15y ago
Yes!!! I was hoping to have pay-per-impression advertisement that would pay the bill but apps which don't offer wordy clutter are not allowed to have ads. I was rejected by adSense, BuySellAds, and adBrite. Sometimes I think we build Internet for robots not for humans. I have ~100 visits per day. That costs me ~$0.10 per day. More details here: https://github.com/entaroadun/hnpickup/wiki/Hacker-News-Pickup-Rate-Web-App-Analytics https://github.com/entaroadun/hnpickup/wiki/Hacker-News-Pick...
- zeratul 15y ago
  Just got an email from Kontera ads: Denial Reason: Insufficient Text. What happen to saying: "picture worth thousand words"?
- lurker17 15y ago
  Put current HN headlines on the page to generate content for ads.
- groby_b 15y ago
  Looking at the details: 3.8 million data store reads for 8,000 visitors seems high. Especially for the kind of data you are serving - it's not rapidly changing. Are you using memcache at all? A quick scan of the source doesn't show any memcache imports, but I just might've missed it. (http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/memcache/usingmemcache.html http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/memcache/usingm...)
  - zeratul 15y ago
    The content is refreshed every 15 min - both database and UI. Probably the production version of the code will get memcache and some other features. Apart of couple suggestions from the discussion here the educational version of hnpickup will be frozen. Although, any simplifications or correction to the code or documentation are very welcome.