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On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 1:55 AM, Duncan Booth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Google have announced a new service called 'Google App Engine' which may > be of interest to some of the people here (although if you want to sign > up you'll have to join the queue behind me): > > >From the introduction: > > > What Is Google App Engine? > > > > Google App Engine lets you run your web applications on Google's > > infrastructure. App Engine applications are easy to build, easy to > > maintain, and easy to scale as your traffic and data storage needs > > grow. With App Engine, there are no servers to maintain: You just > > upload your application, and it's ready to serve your users. > > > > You can serve your app using a free domain name on the appspot.com > > domain, or use Google Apps to serve it from your own domain. You can > > share your application with the world, or limit access to members of > > your organization. > > > > App Engine costs nothing to get started. Sign up for a free account, > > and you can develop and publish your application for the world to see, > > at no charge and with no obligation. A free account can use up to > > 500MB of persistent storage and enough CPU and bandwidth for about 5 > > million page views a month. > > > > During the preview release of Google App Engine, only free accounts > > are available. In the near future, you will be able to purchase > > additional computing resources. The Application Environment > > > > Google App Engine makes it easy to build an application that runs > > reliably, even under heavy load and with large amounts of data. The > > environment includes the following features: > > > > * dynamic web serving, with full support for common web > > technologies > > * persistent storage with queries, sorting and transactions > > * automatic scaling and load balancing > > * APIs for authenticating users and sending email using Google > > Accounts > > * a fully featured local development environment that > > simulates Google App Engine on your computer > > > > Google App Engine applications are implemented using the Python > > programming language. The runtime environment includes the full Python > > language and most of the Python standard library. > > > > Although Python is currently the only language supported by Google App > > Engine, we look forward to supporting more languages in the future. > > http://code.google.com/appengine > > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list