Curtis Olson wrote: > Definitely nice work on the page layout. It's my job to play devil's > advocate so to speak, [...]
My concerns are of similar nature, and locking the project into Google's infrastructure without any option to pull out doesn't sound intriguingly. But since I knew that you'd play the role, I was happily taking the easy route :-) > - We would be forced to host the site on google's servers (free hosting up > to a certain bandwidth/cpu limitation) Recent history has shown that there's no drawback compared to the current solution. > - There would be no possibility of ever moving/porting the site to another > host because the entire site is dependent on the google apps infrastructure. I don't think so - well, depends on which parts of the framework are being used. According to this document: http://code.google.com/intl/en-intl/appengine/docs/python/overview.html .... there's always the option to use the Django framework and from a quick glance I'd say that even the Google Python datastore API seems to be very similar to the Django database API. Therefore I suspect that such a site would be pretty portable as long as no "webapp"-framework specific code is being used and I also don't see a reason why the Google datastore content can't be written into some (portable) dump file. Cheers, Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are ! -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel