Clarification for AppEngine Free Tier
CaptainCodeman opened this issue · 1 comments
CaptainCodeman commented
The readme suggests there is a free-tier for AppEngine, which there is, but only for Standard. Node won't run on that though and requires AppEngine Flex which doesn't have a free tier and is quite expensive so the readme might be misleading:
Google App Engine is a managed server platform that supports Node and has a free tier. You can deploy prpl-server to App Engine with a few steps:
aomarks commented
Removed the part about free tier. I was under the mistaken impression it applied to flex, but sadly you're right! Thanks for reporting.
"Note: The free tier is available only for the Standard Environment."
https://cloud.google.com/free/docs/always-free-usage-limits