> EC2 also has a lot other usage than hosting a web site. You can use it > for scientific computing, video transcoding, data mining and etc.
I agree - you have a little more freedom / computing power / resources than you do with GAE, and its pretty cheap. A quick lookthrough on Amazon's site shows EC2's lowend costing $0.10 per hour (ten cents an hour) to use. And you can shut it down/start it up whenever you want so you don't incur much cost while 'playing around' in the beginning. I did like being able to 'dive in' to GAE just using my Google login and start playing around - but EC2 seems more practical for real world use yet. There needs to be more to make GAE something viable... or maybe Google's not really aiming to compete on the 'high end' cloud computing arena, more just to give a place for people to create Google Gadgets? (In that case it should be named 'Google Gadget Engine'!!) But I don't think that's the case, I must be missing something =) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
