Sorry, I was referring to the $0.01/hr that Amazon charges for reserving an IP address, thinking that a the proxy server was essentially serving the same function.
On Aug 25, 8:27 am, "Nick Johnson (Google)" <nick.john...@google.com> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 12:53 PM, J <j.si...@earlystageit.com> wrote: > > > I have an idea, throwing it out to this group to see if it is sound. > > > What if there were a service in the cloud that served as an https > > proxy?https://www.abc.comwould resolve to this service and its sole > > job would be to be a proxy forhttps://abc.appspot.com. Well, there is > > the performance problem of the extra hop, and the trust problem of > > whether we trust this service to not look at messages as it terminates > > the SSL certs at either end. > > Said service would have to have a unique IP per domain it proxies. This > could be difficult to scale given the relative scarcity of IPv4 addresses > these days. > > As you point out, it would also require routing all requests via a single > location. > > > > > Are there any other problems that anyone can see? It might be a nice > > short-term solution until Google comes up with their solution. > > Amazon's $0.01/hr translates to $7.20 per month. What if this service > > were priced similarly? How many folks would buy it? Does such a > > service already exist? > > I believe Amazon's EC2 instances start at $0.10 per hour, not $0.01. You > could serve many domains with one machine, potentially, but I'm not sure if > Amazon will let you associate multiple elastic IPs with the same EC2 > instance. > > -Nick Johnson > > > > > > > > > On Aug 24, 6:44 am, Kris Walker <kixxa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > repairman, > > > > I'm building what I hope will be a real business on GAE. In > > > particular, my system design is not possible in environments like EC2, > > > because of the extra configuration and overhead involved in holding a > > > static IP. That was a design decision by Amazon. Not having a static > > > IP was a design decision by Google, and it offers a different set of > > > advantages. > > > > If there were only a few different kinds of things on the planet that > > > we could eat, we would have no chefs. When creating a great dining > > > experience for your customers you need a variety of ingredients to put > > > together that 5 star dish. > > > > My hat is off to the GAE team for carefully considering their design > > > implications. I hope they continue to keep their ear to the crowd, > > > but hold their ground to offer the ingredients we need to make great > > > products, rather than just anything that everyone else has. > > -- > Nick Johnson, Developer Programs Engineer, App Engine --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
