Hi GAE team, I'm writing to express frustration about the scheduled maintenances of March 2 and March 9. I'm using GAE to host several time-dependent games being played by tens of thousands of people. Having datastore writes unavailable for 30 minutes during the peak traffic time is frustrating and expensive. The cost to my small business will be significant.
I acknowledge that with a globally distributed service every hour of the day is equally bad. I also acknowledge that downtime is a statistical inevitability. However I would like to believe that *scheduled* downtime is not inevitable. There must be a way for a company with Google's resources and talent to upgrade server hardware without taking the entire system offline for up to 30 minutes. As a customer who's investing considerably in this platform, I'd appreciate some insight into the mechanics of these "scheduled maintenance" decisions. How often can we expect these outages? If I were a provider of a social service based around baseball, for instance, what recourse would I have if Google decided to perform a scheduled maintenance during the seventh game of the World Series? Ben --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
