On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 03:06:10PM -0700, Steven Morrey wrote: > My experience with Slicehost has been fantastic and they use AWS. I'm pretty sure this is wrong. Slicehost is a rackspace company so if anything they use rackspace. My understanding is that they are like Linode in which they have physical servers that are coloed which they then run Xen on top off.
> Anyways, just wanted to gather some thoughts together & see what > others have experienced with App Engine or AWS. I think you are comparing apples to oranges. AWS is a system for virtualizing hardware to allow you to scale your system. GAE is a tool for virtualizing your operating system allowing you to build your application. As you said when you used GAE for somethings it was better others it was worse. This is because GAE is designed to allow certain styles of applications to be easier to build/deploy. Sorta like Heroku. If you want to build an app and have simple needs GAE lets you get off the ground quickly without worrying about the OS, filesystem or any of the other underlying details. AWS is for people who are building something like Tarsnap, DropBox, or a content delivery system. They care about the OS, filesystem, and system security but don't care about the hardware, power management and so on. -Tarrant /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
