On: Google App Engine Pricing Angers Developers, Kills...

[wccrawford]

$81/month for a fun project that gets you noticed and looks good on your resume is nothing to sneeze at. Blog about it, and suddenly you have a hidden revenue stream from it. Let people know its yours and suddenly you have some weight to throw around.

[catch23 → wccrawford]

For $81/month, you can get a 4 processor 2GB Linode box, which is enough to run a few dozen fun projects on there.

[fuckgoogle → catch23]

For $69/month you can get a 8 GB dedicated server with Core i7-920. http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produktmatrix/rootserver-pr...

With Google the only thing you'll get for $69/month is a sore ass.

[papaf → wccrawford]

I think you're severely underestimating what a $81 machine is capable of:

http://www.kegel.com/c10k.html

and the choices available for fun projects:

http://www.lowendbox.com/