Hi Wesley Just some feedback - it isn't great when the downtime happens 30 minutes after the scheduled downtime.
For our website www.shoesofprey.com, we display a banner for 1.5 hours after the scheduled downtime. Posting that message 30 minutes prior makes us seem foolish, and it also means if the maintenance goes over, then we don't have the proper banner up. A solution would be to introduce a new API call: something like appengine.in_maintenance_window() That way we could just call that on every request, and display a window alerting users that the website is offline - or even redirect to a "we're offline for a little while" placeholder. That call should be extremely fast - so calling it on every request should have no overhead. That's a much better solution than having to wait for a write to fail, from a customer expectations point of view... Thanks guys. Mike On Jul 8, 10:24 am, "Wesley C (Google)" <wesc+...@google.com> wrote: > App Engine is in its read-only period NOW for scheduled maintenance. > Subscribe to the downtime notify group (link below) to be alerted of > these system activities. > > Reading:http://bit.ly/cqMhGr > Subscribe:http://bit.ly/9xO5AJ > > -- Wesley > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > "Core Python Programming", Prentice Hall, (c)2007,2001 > "Python Fundamentals", Prentice Hall, (c)2009 > http://corepython.com > > wesley.chun : wesc+api at google.com : @wescpy > developer relations :: google app engine > @app_engine :: googleappengine.blogspot.com -- 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-appeng...@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.
