The one issue I ran into was lack of HTTPS support, that should change in the future I hear, at which point I think GAE is very possibly a good platform for building web/ecommerce apps. I've been watching the ongoing performance issues with some concern, though managing your own server isn't without risk of the same (though you have more control over the solution).
The thing GAE does very right is to enable you to build platform independent applications. If you build your application so that it can easily be ported from one platform to another you'll be able to migrate onto (in our case, when HTTPS support comes available) or off of GAE (if performance issues became a show stopper) without a re-write. David -----Original Message----- From: google-appengine@googlegroups.com [mailto:google-appeng...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Edda UX Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2010 5:40 PM To: Google App Engine Subject: [google-appengine] Potential GAE Usage Folks, I've been using GAE for a couple of weeks now and its a great setup and I've taught myself Python so things are very interesting but I'm quickly becoming aware of the "edges" and how best to use GAE. I've used GAE for a pet project at my current work place, but could I use it for a consulting sideline? I don't think the business version would suit as these app/sites could be for different clients and this is where the fuzzy line is coming into play. With web apps / websites becoming increasingly blurred, it appears that GAE may be suitable to build e-commerce sites, web apps but I wouldn't be confident enough that I could build this info a business and rely on GAE as they have certain restrictions. Would this mean I need to look at a AWS setup (more work setting the box up etc, but more control) rather than GAE. I would be interested to hear peoples opinions on where GAE sits in the grand scheme of things and would google allow me to develop apps / websites on GAE rather than going to a hosting company or amazon and renting a VPS or cloud equivalent. Cheers -- 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. -- 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.
