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I don't trust google with anything like this. Go with companies that are committed and will not change pricing by 5-10x in couple of years like they did with ap
by salimmadjd 14y ago
I don't trust google with anything like this. Go with companies that are committed and will not change pricing by 5-10x in couple of years like they did with app engine
- tantalor 14y agoWhat do those companies charge? How difficult would it be to migrate?
- salimmadjd 14y agoI had to close down one of my sites. We basically built too much around google and made it difficult to migrate. Basically had to re-engineer bunch of stuff and it wasn't worth it anymore. With MySQL it's different obviously depending on how easy it is to dump your data and transfer it
- gizzlon 14y agoDid you ever write about this? Seems like a lesson a lot of people need to hear.
- mikeash 14y agoI think that's the wrong lesson. Go with companies where you can use open software stacks that you can migrate elsewhere if need be. Google's price hike wouldn't have been very important if you could easily run App Engine code elsewhere. You can never be sure whether a company is going to suddenly screw you, but you can control what kind of code you write.
- __Joker 14y agoMigration and cost of migration, how much it cost to take the data out of the provider, if you are using cloud database services.
- genwin 14y agoBased on that episode, me too. It would take a decade of reading about their excellent customer service before I'd trust them.