I'd say it is well-suited to storing and serving images submitted by your users. Just store them in the blobstore and serve them up with the High-Performance Image Serving. It is mentioned in this blog post:
http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2010/08/multi-tenancy-support-high-performance_17.html If you need to do lots of complicated image transforms, then AE may not provide enough features, but for simple crops and resizes it works well. -Chris On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 5:54 PM, ICPooreMan <shaunpo...@gmail.com> wrote: > So I'm just getting started evaluating if the app engine is right for > me and I like what I've seen so far. There's a couple things I'm > curious about though. > > 1) Can you and how do you get a backup of the database. I haven't > found anything on this subject that looks current. Can anyone point > me in the right direction? > > 2) Does the app engine lend itself to hosting a decent amount of > uploaded images? I'm planning on building a website where if it ever > got a large amount of traffic there'd be a good amount of user > generated content especially pictures. > > -- > 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. > > -- 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.