I cannot agree more. Had I known this kind of downtime before, I would have not chosen GAE, at least not on MS datastore.
Yes, I can switch to HR. Right now, my app costs about $2 a day, 1.99 is cpu charge. Plus, I need to create a new app, make the current datastore readonly, copy data over, do a couple rounds of tests, and adjust my reverse-proxy to point to the new app. I know I have to when dealing with the complains from customers becomes more painful than switching. Hopefully at that point, Google can make the switching just a button-click away... Yours, Will On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 2:48 PM, Kyle Mulka <kyle.mu...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear App Engine Team, > > No web application platform should have hour-long scheduled downtime > periods in the middle of the day. Why does Google App Engine have > these, and when will this no longer happen? And, while one response > might be to switch to the high replication datastore, this should > technically be possible to fix without sacrificing consistency. > > One fix that I would be satisfied with is to schedule the downtime in > the middle of the night. Give me the option of when downtime can > occur. If you need some inspiration, you could look over at that other > cloud provider I'm considering switching to. > http://aws.amazon.com/rds/faqs/#12 > > The downtime also wouldn't be as bad if it were only for a couple > minutes. > > The other thing I want to point out is that scheduled downtime is > different than unplanned downtime. Unplanned downtime is something you > can't control, but it just frustrates me that you plan downtime in the > middle of the day. This is the biggest reason for why I'm considering > switching away from Google App Engine. > > Looking forward to hearing from the App Engine team. > > Thanks, > > -- > Kyle Mulka > Co-Founder, DealSavant > http://www.dealsavant.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-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.
