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The author's experience sure sounds frustrating, but they sound like problems with App Engine's administration rather than the actual platform or SDK's. Here is
by jmitcheson 15y ago
The author's experience sure sounds frustrating, but they sound like problems with App Engine's administration rather than the actual platform or SDK's. Here is the relevant part
"I head over to the AppEngine billing page and enable billing. However, after enabling billing, I realized I had used the wrong credit card, and tried to disable it again so I could change credit cards. AppEngine notified me that, by doing this, I would not be able to re-enable billing for another seven days"
For those unfamiliar with App Engine, enabling billing unlocks certain usage quotas and platform features.
- StavrosK 15y agoThat's exactly it. However, the lack of support and braindead billing/limit policies was what actually lost us money, rather than any platform failing. I also forgot to mention that the huge queue of mails that couldn't be sent used 5 instances all the time to iterate, so that kept using resources and costing us money for doing nothing.