I have the exact same problem for my product. My customers are not savvy
enough to be comfortable with setting up Google Apps for their domain and
they don't understand why they need to signup with Google to use my
product.
My solution is to offer all customers a domain like
customer-name.my-app.comwhere I own
my-app.com and have a wildcard CNAME *.my-app.com pointing to ghs.google.com.
If the customer wants to use their own domain then I run it through an nginx
proxy running on EC2. The proxy is only used for the main page -- I still
load all of the images, etc. from the domain that is hosted on GAE to take
advantage of the Google edge servers.
Since most of my customers don't own a domain yet, I have been able to make
additional revenue by reselling them a domain name. The other advantage of
this is that I can automate the process of setting their DNS and my proxy.
If the customer already has a domain registered, then they must edit their
DNS settings themselves.
It would be really nice if there were a way to use a domain with GAE that
did not require Google Apps.
Star this issue:
http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2587
-Chris
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 8:13 PM, Albert wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Let's assume I'm building a blogging platform on top of appengine
> which I offer to bloggers. One of the features I want to offer them is
> the ability to customize their domain name.
>
> How do I set this up so that it operates dynamically, instead of me
> having to set up google apps accounts for them one by one?
>
> Thanks!
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