Re: Wordpress and Cloud SQL per use billing

Caching, great idea! Thanks, now it's more clear.

I'll give it a try. With caching enabled, low traffic, less than 1 GB of static files and rare updates I think I could keep it running for less than 10 euros/year.

As a limit case, I could pay nothing if there is no update during a year.

On Friday, 4 October 2013 17:00:43 UTC+2, Joe Faith wrote:

Hi Armando

If you choose the per use billing model then you only pay for the time that the database is online (in 1hour increments).

If your database hasn't been accessed for 15 minutes then we take it offline. You then just pay the data storage cost ($0.24 per GB per month).

The next time it's accessed (read OR write) we bring it back online. This takes just a couple of seconds for the smallest D0 instances.

(The scenario suggested by Andrew presumes you do some kind of caching in the WP application, so that reads don't hit the database.)

See this for more details:

https://developers.google.com/cloud-sql/faq#how_usage_calculated

J

On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 2:46 AM, Armando Villani <armando...@gmail.com> wrote:

"It's all pretty cheap, as low as $10 a month. You can make it even cheaper by running it a per-use mode and paying for 15-minute increments — for example, by only posting every one or two days, in which case you're only paying for the 15-minute increment that you're actually doing writes in."
http://venturebeat.com/2013/07/18/google-app-engine-and-php-its-amazing-and-we-didnt-anticipate-this/

Is this real? Do I pay only when writing to database? Or do I pay when the database is running regardless I'm writing, reading or doing nothing?
Here https://developers.google.com/cloud-sql/docs/billing#per_use they're talking of $0.025 per hour for D0 Database but is instance running h24 for wordpress being live or the instance runs only when updating (i.e. writing to db) as stated in the above article?

I have a small Wordpress site (200 visit/month).  I update the blog (really a static website more than a blog) only a few times in a month and, if true, this pricing scheme could make google app engine really a good choice for me. Actually I pay about 25 euros per month for a traditional hosting service.


Thanks.

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