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by codesink 5519 days ago
Backends seem overpriced to me; their default backend is a long-lasting process running at 1.2Ghz allowed to use 256MB of RAM and it's priced $0.16/hour ($115/month).

They can shutdown/restart/relocate your backend whenever they want so what they suggest to keep your service live is "Configuring more backend instances than are normally required to handle your traffic patterns" (yeah that's at least another $115/month fee).
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sorenbs 5519 days ago
At linode that kind of money will give you 4G of ram, cpu power in the same ball park and loads of storage and transfer. It seems that Backends - and the GAE in general - makes most sense when you view the system as a whole, and work with systems of a certain size. Tasks goes in to queues and backends are started and stopped as needed - stuff like that. If all you need is to serve a long running process, linode and the like is more economical.
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gte910h 5519 days ago
If you're actually using them as a backend, I'm not sure you couldn't start them up and shut them down.

But yes, they are expensive.

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