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>Pricing >During the beta period you will be charged only for the Google Cloud Storage storage and network egress consumed by your Docker images. Dammit googl

>Pricing >During the beta period you will be charged only for the Google Cloud Storage storage and network egress consumed by your Docker images. Dammit google, this is not how you price things. Especially when people have been burned by price jumps on your service before. I don't know why i'd bother integrating with a service when I have no idea what the cost will be.

dragonwriter 12y ago
> Dammit google, this is not how you price things. It actually is the way Google quite often prices things. > I don't know why i'd bother integrating with a service when I have no idea what the cost will be. Then maybe a pre-release service for which Google has not yet developed the experience with usage patterns that will let it price the service appropriately isn't for you. But that's okay, its not intended for everybody -- even everybody for whom the service would be appropriate when GA -- hence the Beta label.
- e12e 12y ago
  >> Dammit google, this is not how you price things. > It actually is the way Google quite often prices things. True, that doesn't mean it's a good idea. > maybe a pre-release service (...) Also true.
kolev 12y ago
This could end up being more expensive than Docker's own or CoreOS's. People would rather pay a flat fee rather than worrying about storage and bandwidth.
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cbd1984 12y ago
> During the beta period you will be charged only for the Google Cloud Storage storage and network egress consumed by your Docker images. Is there any guarantee the cost will be a linear function of those things? Quadratic? Quartic? Exponential? Fine print, fine print everywhere.
- cbd1984 12y ago
  Down voted by fans I see.
res0nat0r 12y ago
Your quote says it is a beta service. If you are betting the farm on beta services or expecting them not to change under you during a beta period, it really is only your own fault.
piggity 12y ago
A large part of the issue with pricing on Google App Engine (which is the one that still stings for many people) - was that they were building on a relatively proprietary platform. The advantage of Docker based compute engines is that your lock-in is a lot lower - providers have to compete on price and features without locking customers in. Where I work, we're always balancing using new AWS features against how hard it would be to migrate out to another provider or take our solutions on-premises.

dragonwriter 12y ago

> Dammit google, this is not how you price things. It actually is the way Google quite often prices things. > I don't know why i'd bother integrating with a service when I have no idea what the cost will be. Then maybe a pre-release service for which Google has not yet developed the experience with usage patterns that will let it price the service appropriately isn't for you. But that's okay, its not intended for everybody -- even everybody for whom the service would be appropriate when GA -- hence the Beta label.

e12e 12y ago
>> Dammit google, this is not how you price things. > It actually is the way Google quite often prices things. True, that doesn't mean it's a good idea. > maybe a pre-release service (...) Also true.

kolev 12y ago

This could end up being more expensive than Docker's own or CoreOS's. People would rather pay a flat fee rather than worrying about storage and bandwidth.

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cbd1984 12y ago

> During the beta period you will be charged only for the Google Cloud Storage storage and network egress consumed by your Docker images. Is there any guarantee the cost will be a linear function of those things? Quadratic? Quartic? Exponential? Fine print, fine print everywhere.

cbd1984 12y ago
Down voted by fans I see.

res0nat0r 12y ago

Your quote says it is a beta service. If you are betting the farm on beta services or expecting them not to change under you during a beta period, it really is only your own fault.

piggity 12y ago

A large part of the issue with pricing on Google App Engine (which is the one that still stings for many people) - was that they were building on a relatively proprietary platform. The advantage of Docker based compute engines is that your lock-in is a lot lower - providers have to compete on price and features without locking customers in. Where I work, we're always balancing using new AWS features against how hard it would be to migrate out to another provider or take our solutions on-premises.