A few months ago I wrote an app for google app engine, and less than a month ago I told people about it. One of the reasons I chose app engine was that it boasted a generous free quota allowing you to host applications serving nearly a million requests a month for free... Now in theory this might be possible, but in my case I am about to outgrow the free quota in less than a month by serving up about 7 to 10 thousand requests per day. The google ads I put on the site don't make any money because most people interact with the application via the command line, doing pushes and pulls.
When I run out of free quota then it will mean that everyone who wants to keep using shellsink will have to go out and setup their own app engine account so they can deploy shellsink. I'm pretty bummed about this. I have sent a request to google to lift the quota from my application so I don't have to pay, but I don't expect that to work. The only chance I see for shellsink to be saved would be for someone at google who uses shellsink to take the project under their wing so that the quota monster will go away. Bad quota monster!
Update: There is a thread in shellsink's quiet little google group about this.
More information can be found at the shellsink blog.
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