Google App Engine Pricing Angers Developers
Source: Joe Brockmeier
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Google has a problem on its hands. The pricing change for App Engine is not winning hearts and minds with developers. The first, most visible, victim after one day is Russell Beattie's PlusFeed. There are sure to be more.
Beattie, who'd set up a service to provide feeds for Google Plus has pulled the plug. Beattie, calling the pricing "completely f****** insane", says that his costs would have jumped from $2.63 based on resources used to $68.46 for one day.
Technically, under the new pricing it would have jumped to $34.23 initially. But that's with an initial 50% discount to ease developers into the pricing change through November. You can see the pricing in the "estimated charges" portion of the screenshot at the bottom of the story. After November 20th, the charge for frontend instances doubles.
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