Hi Vinny *Feature Request:* Can you guys put up an automatic > "Loading.../Redirecting..." page when requests are routed to cold instance > starts? The major problem here really isn't the loading time, it's that > there's no user-facing acknowledgement that something is going on. When a > user clicks a link and gets directed to a cold-start instance they only see > a blank page - they don't know if the page is loading, if their browser > crashed, if the site broke down, etc. Have GAE offer an option where if an > instance is cold started, and the loading is taking more than x seconds, > the user is shown a "LOADING..." graphic, then is redirected to the page > they requested when the instance is finished loading. This isn't new > technology for Google - Gmail does the same thing if email loading is slow. >
Fair input, but unfortunately totally unacceptable for our business case. See, not everyone is in machine <> human communications, many of our apps serve other machines in M2M (machine 2 machine) communication and I certainly don't want to output any 'Come back later' page to a remote API expecting a different input. This said, I'm currently forced to use resident backends in order to overcome the cold-start loading requests, but this solution won't scale automatically with the external load. Hence all the discussion about using standard frontend instances that can handle and scale with load, but require Google to do their homework and never serve requests from cold start instances. Once this problem is solved, a lot of burden is taken off the platform as it can be used in a more flexible way as of now. All other solutions that still involve cold instance starts are crap, sorry to say. Marcel -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
