I remember to have answered this very same question on meta long time ago: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/92027/why-are-stack-exchange-sites-not-hosted-on-a-cloud/92033#92033
On Feb 8, 9:11 am, Andrin von Rechenberg <and...@miumeet.com> wrote: > I guess what you are proposing is marketing / promotions using > established products so people get to know GAE and once they > try it they move everything to it. > > Unfortunately I think that is not the case. I guess the guys&girls at > StackOverflow know of GAE - maybe they haven't thought about > using it, right. But that's just StackOverflow. There are thousands > of other sites of this scale. > > I don't know of any site the size of StackOverflow that runs on > AppEngine. As stated before, I think Google should try to tailor > GAE exactly to sites like StackOverflow. Sites that just hit the > serving-out-of-one-box-problem. I doubt that a wordpress hosting > plan would get StackOverflow on board. IMHO Google should > tell StackOverflow to move to GAE and Google should cover > the hosting costs in exchange for a "powered by GAE" on all > StackOverflow sites. That would be great marketing. > > But I'm afraid it's not only about marketing. I think there are > other reasons why sites like StackOverflow don't use GAE. > Herevare two obvious ones to start with: Pricing & fulltext search. > I would be very interested in what other ones are. > > This basically boils down to: > > If StackOverflow doesn't want to run on GAE for good reasons, > I dont want to run on GAE either! > > I'm interested in a vivid discussion :) > I tried to get Nick Craver, the author of the Blog post to join and > posted a comment on his blog. > > Cheers, > -Andrin > > > > > > > > On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 11:07 PM, Brandon Wirtz <drak...@digerat.com> wrote: > > ** ** > > > >Man this is such a great article, but I was really hoping to read the > > sentence: "And so we decided to move StackOverflow to AppEngine".**** > > > ** ** > > > If Gae Wanted to outright win the cloud wars, in the next 180 days. They’d > > make a Wordpress fork specific to GAE, and a MineCraft server that ran on > > GAE. > > > That’s how you get talked about, and how you get new deployments by > > people. If you had everyone who wanted infinite scale wordpress running on > > GAE every marketing guy would say, “oh yeah we moved our blog to Google’s > > cloud” and suddenly it would be “approachable, tangible, and real” Right > > now, there is not a lot of off the shelf stuff for GAE, and none of it is > > Mainstream. > > > Minecraft is about hooking the kids young. You can do that with clouds, > > but not smoking. Not sure why that is, but those are the rules.**** > > > **** > > > -- > > 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.
