Personally I couldn't find anything free, except for EatJ, which has a free "trial." Apparently you have to restart the server every 6? hours in trial mode. Anyway, soon after I registered it didn't let me log in anymore, not sure why.
On Apr 20, 8:56 am, Jeremy Mawson <jeremy.mawson.w...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yes, for those who wish to tinker and share their tinkerings with the world, > the zero cost entry point* is good. > > I'm also interested in any opinions of which free services are better than > GAE for Lift apps. > > Cheers > Jeremy > > * - yes, I know there is a billing model for increased bandwidth and other > add-ons with GAE. > > 2009/4/20 samreid <samrr...@gmail.com> > > > > > > > > > If GAE is not a good home for Lift applications, can you recommend > > some alternate hosts? Are there any free alternates? > > > Thanks, > > Sam Reid > > > On Apr 17, 3:57 pm, David Pollak <feeder.of.the.be...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > Folks, > > > > I've just committed a version of Lift (including the Lift Example) that > > runs > > > on the Google App Engine. You can see the running demo at: > >http://liftdemo.appspot.com/ > > > > What's missing: > > > > - Mapper and Mapper-related stuff. You can use JPA. > > > - Comet. GAE's lack of thread or message queue support is a huge > > > limitation. > > > - Actor-based session-shutdown notification is disabled on GAE. > > > - There's no session affinity guarantee, so there may be problems with > > > migrating sessions (I'll be working with the Google folks on this > > issue) > > > > Okay... so you can build apps on GAE... I have to wonder... who would > > want > > > to? > > > > GAE gives you a highly scalable platform to build CRUD apps. Without a > > > back-end messaging infrastructure, long running processes, threads, > > > inter-session messaging, etc. there's not much in the way of exciting > > apps > > > to build. Here are a list of apps that could not be built with GAE: > > > > - Twitter (requires a message bus and back-ground processing) > > > - Facebook (has many of Twitter's requirements) > > > - GoogleTalk > > > - A travel site (the 30 second request duration means that looking > > stuff > > > up on a back end service is not possible) > > > - A multi-player game > > > > So... on a $100/mo box from CalPop, I can run a service that will scale > > to > > > 20M requests per day. If I'm doing 20M requests per day, I've got a > > > business where I want more control over my infrastructure than GAE gives > > > me. That might be Amazon EC2 where I can power-up and down boxes at > > will. > > > There are also a number of different scalable storage solutions on > > Amazon. > > > I just can't for the life of me figure out why anyone would want to put a > > > Java/Scala app on GAE. > > > > Thanks, > > > > David > > > > -- > > > Lift, the simply functional web frameworkhttp://liftweb.net > > > Beginning Scalahttp://www.apress.com/book/view/1430219890 > > > Follow me:http://twitter.com/dpp > > > Git some:http://github.com/dpp > > -- > Jeremy Mawson > Senior Developer | Online Directories > > Sensis Pty Ltd > 222 Lonsdale St > Melbourne 3000 > E: jeremy.maw...@sensis.com.au --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lift" group. To post to this group, send email to liftweb@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to liftweb+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
