I wouldn't use the word "trivial". tell that to foursquare, quora, etc.
to setup something that's comparable to GAE, you'd have to setup instances in both amazon East and West, handle replication from both sides. have fail over. and no, it's not just as easy as adding machines from both east and west together as a cluster. amazon charges you network fee for any traffic outside of a single region. so ie, you pay for any traffic between your instances in east and west. Plus you have to deal with latency. I understand people are upset about GAE pricing, but let's not pretend this is as easy as 1: sign up for amazon, 2: setup 3 instances in amazon east, 3: webscale :) On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 3:53 AM, Andrew Cassidy <an...@bytz.co.uk> wrote: > I agree that one admin would be enough. I have not used EC2 myself but > building a load-balancing, fault-tolerant cluster is relatively trivial if > you've done it before. > > I've just designed and built a prototype for hosting django using readily > available free software. > -- Omnem crede diem tibi diluxisse supremum. -- 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.
