A post by Bill Katz, of bloog fame, posted on the google app engine group a link to Techmeme techcrunch where the pricing for google app engine usage (over the free-of-charge caps) is posted for all to see:

"That cap will continue to apply until later this year, but they will announce the 
following usage fees tomorrow:

    Free quota to get started: 500MB storage and enough CPU and bandwidth for 
about 5 million pageviews per month
    $0.10 — $0.12 per CPU core-hour
    $0.15 — $0.18 per GB-month of storage
    $0.11 — $0.13 per GB outgoing bandwidth
    $0.09 — $0.11 per GB incoming bandwidth

This pricing puts Google App Engine storage and bandwidth costs competitive with 
Amazon S3 (plus Google doesn’t have a per-request fee)."

According to techmeme, the limitation on the number of GAE developers will be lifted and an additional 160,000 will be added tomorrow. Or at least announced tomorrow at Google I/O. That means I’ll be able to register my other google accounts! Nice.

I was creating a presentation for a client using google docs. Basically, I was making a pitch to get him to move to Google Apps. So while I was making the presentation, I went into the control panel to make sure I wasn’t missing any functionality. Well, I was.

Now that I think back on it, I remember looking at it before, but seeing as I use django for my actual website and blog, or plone in the case of neohawk.org, I blew right by it without out really checking it out. Well, today, I finally checked it out — Google Pages.

I know the particular client I was creating the website will not be looking for anything overwhelming difficult, web design wise, so most likely the default templates are just fine. However, the other client will most like want some customization of the templates. It’s not clear how to do that though — at least until I hit the google groups for pages. There was a hint of how to change the css, widen the usable portion of the layout etc. I’ll admit, it’s not elegant, but it seems to work. I did a quick test trying the neohawk.info css stylesheet

Google Page Test

I am personally not interested in them whatsoever, but for this particular client and one other it’s absolutely perfect. They have maybe three pages of content, largely just to say that have a web page. Both clients pretty much work on a face-to-face basis only.