Hello Vianney,
Checking your requirements, generally both can be achieved on either Google Compute Engine, or App Engine with the exception of sending emails per this example <https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/tutorials/sending-mail/using-sendgrid>. You may check this document <https://cloud.google.com/php/docs/> for examples using PHP on both platforms. In a nutshell, you can use Compute Engine for everything, but you would have to manage the (virtual) infrastructure yourself. For example, you can install a LAMP server per this community tutorial. <https://cloud.google.com/community/tutorials/setting-up-lamp> On the other hand, you may use both (GAE and GCE) at the same time (maybe less infrastructure management). For example, you may use Google App Engine for your PHP application while you can use a GCE instance for sending emails, and another instance (GCE or Cloud SQL <https://cloud.google.com/sql/docs/mysql/>) for your MySQL database. If you decide to use Google App engine for your PHP application, you would have to choose between standard or flexible environment per this document <https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/php/> (check the differences <https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/the-appengine-environments>). Note that per your requirements I found that in standard environment cURL extension is subject to quota and restrictions per this document <https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/php/runtime#dynamically_loadable_extensions>, and in flexible environment MySQLi extension uses mysqlnd per this document <https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/flexible/php/runtime>. Furthermore, I found this stackoverflow <https://cloud.google.com/sql/docs/mysql/> discussion that can be useful if setting up MySQLi with CloudSQL in app engine. That said, you have many options to deploy your web application, and going through the (hands-on) tutorials may help you decide. -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/8da13850-bb68-4237-9baf-f61e6e64a706%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
