[google-appengine] Re: Root Domain 403ing, but other domains working

2018-08-15 Thread Brandon Wirtz
Error changed sometime after posting. Nothing in the code/routes points to the specific domain. Also no code changes were made when the issue occurred. Lastly, it has worked intermittently in the past 24 hours as traffic was logged. Stack exchange sent me here, as "this was a General

[google-appengine] Root Domain 403ing, but other domains working

2018-08-12 Thread Brandon Wirtz
As of about 3 days ago, my w34.us domain started 403ing on Appengine. Other root domains linked to the same app work, and www.w34.us works. I checked the DNS settings and they match what Google tells me to use, and the fact that it makes it to the 403 with a Google Error implies it is not a

[google-appengine] Billing on disabled App?

2014-07-02 Thread Brandon Wirtz
I got an email because the credit card I had attached to an App that is disabled is also disabled. I lost my card, so I had it canceled. Turns out that a disabled App is still trying to bill the card so I'm getting an email about the card declining. I can't tell if I owe Google $49 or not, but

RE: [google-appengine] Billing on disabled App?

2014-07-02 Thread Brandon Wirtz
@googlegroups.com [mailto:google-appengine@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Brandon Wirtz Sent: Wednesday, July 2, 2014 5:14 PM To: google-appengine@googlegroups.com Subject: [google-appengine] Billing on disabled App? I got an email because the credit card I had attached to an App that is disabled

[google-appengine] CDN in a Box free for non-commercial use (and open source)

2014-06-16 Thread Brandon Wirtz
CDN in a Box is a lot like Google's Page Speed, or Cloudflare.com https://github.com/BlackWaterOps/CDN-in-a-Box/ Because of recent events I decided I was going to make it free for non-commercial use. The project is Open Source, but doesn't allow derivatives. Commercial licenses often

RE: [google-appengine] Re: Legal Doesn't seem to respond

2014-06-03 Thread Brandon Wirtz
Out of curiosity, if you don't mind, what is your scenario? Those who have been on the list for a long time will recall that I make a software called “CDN In A Box”. It is a caching and acceleration package for AppEngine that works as a reverse proxy. This is very efficient when you are

RE: [google-appengine] Re: Legal Doesn't seem to respond

2014-06-02 Thread Brandon Wirtz
. This is not the first time this question has come up in this forum. This is perhaps an area where Google shouldn’t be skimping on their technical support. -Brandon Wirtz 650-281-1467 From: google-appengine@googlegroups.com [mailto:google-appengine@googlegroups.com] On Behalf

[google-appengine] Legal Doesn't seem to respond

2014-05-31 Thread Brandon Wirtz
Notices sent to legal-noti...@google.com mailto:legal-noti...@google.com don’t seem to get a response. Who do I send TakeDown’s to for unlicensed software violations on AppEngine. We are fast approaching treating Google as the violator for failure to comply. -Brandon Wirtz 650-281-1467

RE: [google-appengine] Google App Engine / Cloud Storage Uploads for php broken in 1.9.0?

2014-03-14 Thread Brandon Wirtz
An ongoing issue with AppEngine is that the GAE team seems happy to make changes to the service that break running code. Things that were working stop, and often there isn’t even 3 days notice the changes are coming. From: google-appengine@googlegroups.com

RE: [google-appengine] Re: Best way to update 400,000 entities at once?

2014-03-04 Thread Brandon Wirtz
We just learned that there is a limit to how fast you can defer to the task queue. You can only have 10 async requests open at a time, so if you try to defer 100 things number 11-100 will fail if the scheduler for task 1 doesn’t respond by the time you get to 11. This is really annoying

RE: [google-appengine] Re: Show and Tell: Plexi Voice a Windows Phone 8 App with AppEngine backend.

2014-03-02 Thread Brandon Wirtz
Kaan, Before most of the questions and answers moved to Stack Overflow, there was a lot more show and tell on this forum. I don’t hang out here as much as I used to because the group lost a lot of community after them move. I hope people will share more about what they are doing, and why

RE: [google-appengine] Show and Tell: Plexi Voice a Windows Phone 8 App with AppEngine backend.

2014-03-01 Thread Brandon Wirtz
of the internet at their disposal, but our NLP engine is about 300 times faster than NTLK, or CoreNLP so we can do a lot more on the fly. -Brandon Wirtz CTO PlexiNLP.com 650-281-1467 From: google-appengine@googlegroups.com [mailto:google-appengine@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Vinny P Sent

RE: [google-appengine] Show and Tell: Plexi Voice a Windows Phone 8 App with AppEngine backend.

2014-03-01 Thread Brandon Wirtz
? On Feb 28, 2014 2:59 PM, Brandon Wirtz drak...@digerat.com mailto:drak...@digerat.com wrote: No hacks. We didn't plan to run NLTK forever. We have peaks and valleys and no 4 boxes would not handle the amount of crawling we do. We wouldn't have stuck with the platform if we thought

[google-appengine] Show and Tell: Plexi Voice a Windows Phone 8 App with AppEngine backend.

2014-02-28 Thread Brandon Wirtz
We just put out our Open Beta of Plexi Voice. A GoogleNow/Siri like Conversational Search product. Yes it is for Windows Phone. Yes, it uses Google AppEngine for all of its backend. http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/plexivoice/9c09f697-657d-4613-ae 67-7e787121d0a4 The code is ours,

RE: [google-appengine] Show and Tell: Plexi Voice a Windows Phone 8 App with AppEngine backend.

2014-02-28 Thread Brandon Wirtz
this in half of the time if you had just 4 boxes running with 64gb of ram? On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 2:19 PM, Brandon Wirtz drak...@digerat.com mailto:drak...@digerat.com wrote: We just put out our Open Beta of Plexi Voice. A GoogleNow/Siri like Conversational Search product. Yes

RE: [google-appengine] Have to type in www before custom domain name

2013-12-10 Thread Brandon Wirtz
I'd tell you to star the item to add this to AppsForDomains, but that doesn't seem to do any good. Naked Domains used to work, then they broke it. They clear the stars when they unbreak it for a few hours, then they break it again. Also if your naked domain has a different DNS record than your

RE: [google-appengine] Mixing PHP and Python in a single App Engine App[seperate instances]

2013-12-04 Thread Brandon Wirtz
Apps that are not the primary app have some weird scaling issues. Use Modules instead of versions so they can talk to each other. From: google-appengine@googlegroups.com [mailto:google-appengine@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Gary Mort Sent: Wednesday, December 4, 2013 6:20 AM To:

RE: [google-appengine] Re: Unhappy, Down, And Apparently System Thinks I'm Not A Gold Support Member.

2013-12-04 Thread Brandon Wirtz
your PIN number. Feel free to create a case or call us to take a closer look into the issue. Sincerely, Jose M Technical Solutions Engineer Google Cloud Platform On Wednesday, December 4, 2013 12:24:17 PM UTC-5, Brandon Wirtz wrote: My AppsForDomains account appears to have gone Poof

RE: [google-appengine] Google Apps Won't let me set up AppEngine Apps

2013-10-09 Thread Brandon Wirtz
-appengine] Google Apps Won't let me set up AppEngine Apps On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 3:24 PM, Brandon Wirtz drak...@digerat.com mailto:drak...@digerat.com wrote: It appears I can't set up domains in Apps For Domains. I get the error shown. Did you add the domain as a domain alias

RE: [google-appengine] Re: Pagespeed increases load time and index

2013-01-16 Thread Brandon Wirtz
Page speed works like Beautiful soup + a CDN If you don't have a sucky page template, and you serve mostly unique content, page speed will slow you down a lot. The request hits the Page Speed Caching Proxy, the caching proxy grabs the page from Appengine, the proxy recalculate the HTML,

RE: [google-appengine] Re: Our application is very slow and appengine.google.com is unreachable

2013-01-15 Thread Brandon Wirtz
We are still experience slow downs across our apps stremor-sfe strremor-apier seem to have the most issues. From: google-appengine@googlegroups.com [mailto:google-appengine@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Christina Ilvento Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2013 9:38 AM To:

[google-appengine] GAE Monitoring From Third Party

2013-01-15 Thread Brandon Wirtz
We are making this monitoring tool public facing http://gaemonitor.com/ this is hosted on Rackspace, and will get a few changes over the next few days, but it lets you look in to what our apps are doing in terms of performance of the core API's (datastore, memecache, defer) . It updates every 5

RE: [google-appengine] Re: Oh, she scales

2013-01-14 Thread Brandon Wirtz
Pretty much. And we check robots before, so that slows things down. But this is not user facing, This is a background process that happens in response to user actions. -Original Message- From: google-appengine@googlegroups.com [mailto:google-appengine@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of alex

RE: [google-appengine] How many people are using google app engine?

2013-01-12 Thread Brandon Wirtz
Lots, and lots. This appears to be a loaded question. Better questions are things like how much revenue does AppEngine generate and how many requests a day does it serve I don't have those answers but some of that is on the web. From: google-appengine@googlegroups.com

[google-appengine] What you can build with AppEngine

2013-01-11 Thread Brandon Wirtz
Everything. At CES we showed off our Language Heuristics Engine. Software that actually uses understanding of the written word to make very complex decisions about content classifications, writing style, bias, sentiment, and more. Our core Liquid Helium runs in an f1, but we typically keep it at

RE: [google-appengine] Re: Google Apps No Longer Free

2012-12-09 Thread Brandon Wirtz
Oh? So you don't use Apps For Domains to Deploy your App? It'd be awesome if you didn't have to do that, but I kind of think you do. From: google-appengine@googlegroups.com [mailto:google-appengine@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Jeff Schnitzer Sent: Sunday, December 9, 2012 8:15 PM To:

RE: [google-appengine] App Engine Servers - Trusted Tester Sign-up

2012-12-07 Thread Brandon Wirtz
We applied. This is our exact use case. This would solve many of the limitations we run in to, and save us a lot on data store duplication. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Google App Engine group. To post to this group, send email to

RE: [google-appengine] Re: Some dynamic flexibility in selecting the type of instances would be really useful

2012-11-28 Thread Brandon Wirtz
Except that if you need it to go to more than 1 you stop getting profit, and get suffering. From: google-appengine@googlegroups.com [mailto:google-appengine@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Andy Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2012 2:20 PM To: google-appengine@googlegroups.com Subject:

RE: [google-appengine] Re: GAE keeps starting new instances causing lots of user facing loading requests

2012-11-27 Thread Brandon Wirtz
Apps serve only 8 requests concurrently. If you have your min/max pending latency set wrong you may have a scenario where the 12-16 requests that a browser will make at a time pushes you to 2 instances with 1 idle. From: google-appengine@googlegroups.com

RE: [google-appengine] Re: Sub Thread: Google's Conflicting Objectives.

2012-11-25 Thread Brandon Wirtz
Re-Filling out paper work so we'll see how it goes. I will give it every effort. I am still sad that premiere doesn't come with 24/7 or phone support. From: google-appengine@googlegroups.com [mailto:google-appengine@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Mani Doraisamy Sent: Saturday, November 24,

RE: [google-appengine] Re: Update on our GAE Experience

2012-11-23 Thread Brandon Wirtz
We have specified 20 with no change. Sometimes it works, then the next week it won't. Things changed first week in August. I used to love backends. I'm the guy famous for saying they were magic. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Google App Engine

RE: [google-appengine] Re: Update on our GAE Experience

2012-11-23 Thread Brandon Wirtz
There's also Mapreduce/Pipeline - you might wanna check that if backend isn't solving your problem. We use that some, but that doesn't help with things that take a long time. If I manage them rather than choosing dynamic we can spin up and down backends, but if they are user initiated that is a

RE: [google-appengine] Re: Update on our GAE Experience

2012-11-23 Thread Brandon Wirtz
And at the end of the day, if nothing else works for you, there's also Compute Engine. Have you tried that? Yeah, the latency between AppEngine and Compute Engine is often too high for some of the stuff we want, and without access to the shared datastore we lose too much along the way. And

RE: [google-appengine] Re: Update on our GAE Experience

2012-11-23 Thread Brandon Wirtz
Some other times, for simpler tasks, we employ a little trick by enqueueing a simple task which would process just the right amount if data and then re-enqueue itself with a pointer of some kind (often a datastore cursor) advanced to the next chunk. When Analyzing a large body of text you

RE: [google-appengine] Re: Update on our GAE Experience

2012-11-23 Thread Brandon Wirtz
I want things to work the same every day. -Original Message- From: google-appengine@googlegroups.com [mailto:google-appengine@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of alex Sent: Friday, November 23, 2012 2:58 AM To: google-appengine@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [google-appengine] Re: Update on our

RE: [google-appengine] Re: Update on our GAE Experience

2012-11-23 Thread Brandon Wirtz
Also, you should really give Go a try. It's amazing how fast you can process data (including images) comparing to Python or Java. Plus, your loading requests will be 10x faster. Obviously, RPC calls to App Engine services will be the same though. We profiled GO, a lot of our most CPU intensive

[google-appengine] Sub Thread: GO vs. Python

2012-11-23 Thread Brandon Wirtz
Response to Alex's Go suggestion. Having extensively tested with Go: Go handles threads better. Go uses less memory and is faster doing array reordering and array merges. This is only true in our experience on up to 3 dimensional arrays. When you get to N-Dimensional arrays for values of 4

[google-appengine] Sub Thread: Google's Conflicting Objectives.

2012-11-23 Thread Brandon Wirtz
Couldn't agree more. In the past, quota limits were based on 2 conflicting objectives: * discouraging people from building non-scalable applications by restricting APIs time limits. * discouraging people from using app engine at an unfair cost during the request pricing regime.

RE: [google-appengine] Google app engine and lock-in

2012-11-22 Thread Brandon Wirtz
If your app runs in under 20gigs of data, and under 10 instances you have options. You aren't going to do 100 instances and Terabytes of data. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Google App Engine group. To post to this group, send email to

[google-appengine] Looks like appengine is down

2012-11-22 Thread Brandon Wirtz
http://appengine.google.com/ 500s and All of our sites are down. So is https://developers.google.com/ https://developers.google.com/appengine/kb/status appengine/kb/status So is code.google.com/status/appengine Happy Thanksgiving. Aren't you glad you are on appengine where you can

RE: [google-appengine] Re: Looks like appengine is down

2012-11-22 Thread Brandon Wirtz
Can't blame them that the system has issues every now and then. Sure I can. 75% of downtime: 1 hour before the system goes down someone posts to this group that memcache is slow. Holidays: Pick one. If there is a three day weekend there will be downtime. Last thing my CEO said

RE: [google-appengine] Re: Update on our GAE Experience

2012-11-22 Thread Brandon Wirtz
IMO, backends quota limits are mostly problems arising out of bigtable data migration (for new application versions) joins/aggregates (in reporting). A few for instances We get feeds from Associated Press. When they update the feed and we try to grab a few hundred images at a time, we hit

RE: [google-appengine] Re: Update on our GAE Experience

2012-11-22 Thread Brandon Wirtz
: Update on our GAE Experience On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 10:57 PM, Brandon Wirtz drak...@digerat.com mailto:drak...@digerat.com wrote: We were trying to do Large jobs with backends, which are supposed to autoscale. They don't. Where did you read that? Jeff -- You received this message

RE: [google-appengine] Re: Update on our GAE Experience

2012-11-21 Thread Brandon Wirtz
To a Google competitor. (I don't compete with Google Yet) And that was just my signature. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Google App Engine group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from

RE: [google-appengine] Re: Update on our GAE Experience

2012-11-21 Thread Brandon Wirtz
I can also assure you it was not a move to CloudFlare. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Google App Engine group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to

RE: [google-appengine] Re: Update on our GAE Experience

2012-11-21 Thread Brandon Wirtz
Finally! The seeds of an Alex-Brandon dust-up appear! This group has been so BORING! David Sorry, we built a product that makes SRI's Siri look like it understands language to the same extent your dog understands ready to go for walkies?. And while we started using the Python NLTK

RE: [google-appengine] Update on our GAE Experience

2012-11-21 Thread Brandon Wirtz
Does your assessment apply to all runtime environments (Java, Python and Go)? We are primarily Python shop. Uptime has been pretty close between Py and Java, no clue about go. Support response time I think is the same regardless. So I'm going to say yes. But others might argue that

[google-appengine] Update on our GAE Experience

2012-11-20 Thread Brandon Wirtz
I wanted to take a minute to update you on where we are with our GAE Experience since people often tell me I live in my own little world of rainbows and unicorns. GAE Support sucks. I might as well send messages by carrier pigeons, and that is generous. Filling out a form for support is like

RE: [google-appengine] Re: Update on our GAE Experience

2012-11-20 Thread Brandon Wirtz
I'm not quite ready to give referrals in Google's own house. If you follow me on Facebook/bwirtz you will catch mention from time to time. You mentioned you have moved things off of GAE. Where are you finding greener pastures? AWS? -- You received this message because you are

[google-appengine] Check Our AppEngine Powered Chrome Plugin

2012-11-16 Thread Brandon Wirtz
This is our latest AppEngine App. We will have an API shortly. Drop me an email at Brandon at Stremor dot Com if you are interested access to the API which provides sentence segmentation; keyword analysis; extractions of people, places, dates, phones; sentiment analysis; reading level;

[google-appengine] Lunch Just Off The Google Campus Today at 1?

2012-09-12 Thread Brandon Wirtz
If anyone is interested I'm going to grab lunch at the Schwerma Place on Shoreline just off the Google Campus. Feel Free to join me and the couple of people from Stremor.com that are traveling with me. 650-281-1467 -Brandon -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

Re: [google-appengine] Re: Startup time exceeded...on F4?!

2012-07-20 Thread Brandon Wirtz
Cache Incoming requests= The thing that I am always accused of. Use Edge Cache to make sure you don't need to serve people who are asking for the same thing. Fault Tolerant writes is about determining how race your race conditions are, and being smart about your writes. Common things I see,

RE: [google-appengine] App Engine getting slower and slower

2012-07-10 Thread Brandon Wirtz
The time period you are talking about is minimal. Hard to tell if you broke something if your instances are being slowed by something, or if you just have a difference in traffic numbers. This is my 30 day numbers for one of my larger apps. For me what happens is Datastore, or Memcache

RE: [google-appengine] Changing IPs

2012-06-26 Thread Brandon Wirtz
Set up a proxy. Also anyone using IP address for security is doing it wrong. . -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Google App Engine group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send

RE: [google-appengine] Re: Page Speed service

2012-06-26 Thread Brandon Wirtz
That seems pricy. Too bad you can't use a public backend as your www I could give you code that would do the same things (better) as a code snippet. I'll likely do that in few weeks. Too much other stuff to get out the door. From: google-appengine@googlegroups.com

RE: [google-appengine] Re: Java instance startup time out of control

2012-06-24 Thread Brandon Wirtz
F4 Vs F2 Vs F1 I'll bet money, your numbers are right and your conclusion is wrong. F4's have more memory, and more CPU, and more IO but the difference I'm 90% certain is that you get a whole VM all to yourself so your neighbors aren't stealing from you. :-) so you get a crap ton more

RE: [google-appengine] Re: Large text files from blobstore are not being gzipped (AppEngine Java)

2012-06-22 Thread Brandon Wirtz
Cloud flare would still suck the uncompressed file down and then zip it, that is unlikely to speed things up. Check my old posts about headers for edge cache, my guess is that you have the expiration set in the past or immediately which causes Edgecache to not compression most mime types.

RE: [google-appengine] Google to launch Amazon, Microsoft cloud rival at Google I/O

2012-06-22 Thread Brandon Wirtz
Agree. We are a lean startup, with no servers, no sysadmin, and no fear of growth. I'd like to see that be the norm, not the edge. From: google-appengine@googlegroups.com [mailto:google-appengine@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Jon Stevens Sent: Friday, June 22, 2012 3:10 PM To:

RE: [google-appengine] Re: viable?: using frequent ajax polling of cloud storage for chat webapp?

2012-06-19 Thread Brandon Wirtz
Use a time stamp in the request, and Edgecache can cache the request. That will let you serve massive numbers of users pretty cheap. From: google-appengine@googlegroups.com [mailto:google-appengine@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Johnson Sent: Sunday, June 17, 2012 10:29 PM To:

RE: [google-appengine] Rising cloud opportunities - zend survey

2012-06-19 Thread Brandon Wirtz
, minus the budget of course :-) And it took a lot longer than a weekend to develop. Please have a try and join our project to help us make it the best of the best. Thanks! On Thursday, 12 January 2012 07:29:33 UTC-5, Brandon Wirtz wrote: I can blame Google for that too. Why isn't

[google-appengine] Turn around time on premiere sales requests?

2012-06-15 Thread Brandon Wirtz
I sent an inquiry on June 1, and then again on the 11th. No one got back to me. That doesn't give my CEO warm fuzzies. Does someone want to call me about taking my money? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Google App Engine group. To post to

RE: [google-appengine] If your bill shoots up due to increased latency, you may not be refunded the charges incurred

2012-06-13 Thread Brandon Wirtz
I know exactly how much every request cost me. cpm_usd=0.000308 cpm_usd=0.000175 As to the latency changes in pricing are no different than when AWS has a performance issue. (actually less so) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Google App Engine

RE: [google-appengine] If your bill shoots up due to increased latency, you may not be refunded the charges incurred

2012-06-13 Thread Brandon Wirtz
These numbers tell you how much a request cost, but don't tell you how much another identical request will cost. The variance between my identical requests is less than 10%. In relation to multi-threading, I only see a variance on the downside of a Spike, when I have Idle instances. That

RE: [google-appengine] If your bill shoots up due to increased latency, you may not be refunded the charges incurred

2012-06-13 Thread Brandon Wirtz
Sure... and you probably wouldn't want to either given how insanely expensive backend RAM is on GAE. But your app is a bit of an oddity, and fits into a quirk of GAE's pricing model. You primarily consume two resources that Google doesn't charge for - memcache and edge caching. This is is

RE: [google-appengine] Re: Help troubleshooting multi-domain app!

2012-06-11 Thread Brandon Wirtz
We have a few hundred domains running on an app, it seems to work just fine. Thread safe enabled. Are you sure you aren't doing some caching on your end that needs to be domain aware and is not? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Google App Engine

[google-appengine] Re: GAE access from mainland china and cloudfare

2012-05-25 Thread Brandon Wirtz
If I was spreading misinformation you would have served me (another) CD. We have been there, done that. Didn't work out last time. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Google App Engine group. To post to this group, send email to

[google-appengine] Re: GAE access from mainland china and cloudfare

2012-05-25 Thread Brandon Wirtz
PS. My porn site received 5 visitors yesterday. I don't really want to be in the porn business, I just want to know if the world changes one day and Google turns the site off. It is a Canary. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Google App Engine group.

[google-appengine] Re: GAE access from mainland china and cloudfare

2012-05-25 Thread Brandon Wirtz
Very weak point. GAE also has a pool of shared IP adresses and allows hardcore pornography. You should know best since you've created your own porn site on GAE and posted it everywhere in this group for your little policy-test. I think it is a very strong point. If you install CloudFlare to

[google-appengine] Re: java performance versus python, cheaper?

2012-05-25 Thread Brandon Wirtz
Actually, since so much of App Engine Apps tend to be dependent on API's, the Language doesn't make much difference in cost. A DataStore Read or Write is the same cost in either. New instances seem to spin up faster (for me) in python than Java, which gets you a small savings. Java has better

RE: [google-appengine] google app engine application run with ipaddress instead of localhost

2012-05-24 Thread Brandon Wirtz
Because GAE isn't hardened when you aren't running it on localhost, (and even though you can bind it to an outside IP). I would recommend that you setup a local Reverse Proxy to bind to your outside IP. Even a Reverse NAT with Firewall would be a better setup than exposing GAE to the world --

RE: [google-appengine] Re: Increase memcache quota

2012-05-24 Thread Brandon Wirtz
These are my current numbers from my primary app as reported by memcache viewer Hit count:620755 Miss count: 2302621 Hit ratio: 21% Item count:511030 item(s) Total cache size: 1381176411 byte(s) Oldest item age: 3

RE: [google-appengine] Re: GAE access from mainland china and cloudfare

2012-05-24 Thread Brandon Wirtz
Damon, Seeing as you only hit up the GAE forums when you want to push your product, you are a spammer. That said. Since you want to claim your product competes with my product, and that I'm a Kia to your Rolls Royce, I'll play. My typical client has a $30k a month bill with their current

RE: [google-appengine] Re: GAE access from mainland china and cloudfare

2012-05-24 Thread Brandon Wirtz
Jeff, Glad you have good luck. That hasn't been the case for many others, and it is not just the captcha. Several Schools found that their students couldn't go to their own sites because the Net Nanny deemed their School Porn sites because of a Shared IP. Sites have been delisted after the

RE: [google-appengine] Re: GAE access from mainland china and cloudfare

2012-05-24 Thread Brandon Wirtz
Honestly, it feels like your crying customers really just needed someone competent to click the right buttons at CloudFlare. It really isn't rocket science either; the UI is pretty straightforward. Jeff And I'm the jerk? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the

RE: [google-appengine] Re: GAE access from mainland china and cloudfare

2012-05-24 Thread Brandon Wirtz
Vlad, I donate a lot of time and resources to freedom of speech and human rights organizations. So we have servers in some really nasty places. And DNS in those places as well. I really wanted to have an Oceania server, but can't justify the price, and the blocking of content is usually of

RE: [google-appengine] Re: GAE access from mainland china and cloudfare

2012-05-23 Thread Brandon Wirtz
Competitive would imply we actively compete in the market. Rolls Royce doesn't compete with Kia. Both make cars that is where the comparison ends. Or that Tent's compete with the housing market. Our Commercial Product does so much more than CF ever dreamed that they aren't in the same league,

[google-appengine] How Long from me deleting data until when I stop getting billed for it?

2012-05-22 Thread Brandon Wirtz
I dropped 30 Gigs of data, Datastore admin reflects it, but billing and dashboard does not. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Google App Engine group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from

RE: [google-appengine] GAE access from mainland china and cloudfare

2012-05-22 Thread Brandon Wirtz
If you use CloudFlare you will be sad. You can put a Proxy/Squid on AWS and Use Route53 to do Geo-Balancing. CF often gets blocked by well... Pretty much everything because it is used by Pirates and Porn sites, and quite often you will share IP's with those. Plus CloudFlare will throw Captcha's

RE: [google-appengine] Re: GAE access from mainland china and cloudfare

2012-05-22 Thread Brandon Wirtz
1. I have never viewed myself as a Cloud Flare Competitor. We built a Product because Cloud Flare F***ED so many bloggers and local businesses that we needed something that they could use as a stop gap until they could move to infrastructure that worked. 2. BULL CRAP 3. Infrequently yeah... When

RE: [google-appengine] Unexplained traffic loss

2012-05-17 Thread Brandon Wirtz
If you had network issues between locations, your traffic could be less evenly distributed, and would as a result make your app peakier. Set your max pending latency higher and your cost won't fluctuate when network latency changes the instantaneous request rate. From:

RE: [google-appengine] 5/13 AppEngine python outage?

2012-05-14 Thread Brandon Wirtz
Sorry. Why do you think that was there issue, not your DNS Provider, or some other issue? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Google App Engine group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this

RE: [google-appengine] Another Question concerning Pornographic content. How far can it go ?

2012-05-09 Thread Brandon Wirtz
Porn is allowed. http://suckingon.appspot.com is my personal porn site set up when they said you could host porn on Appspot. You however can't have an AppsForDomains Domain name with any words from a long list of words that are not that pornographic Like you can't have the domain,

RE: [google-appengine] Can I use python-gnupg in my application?

2012-05-06 Thread Brandon Wirtz
Use Pycrypto. From: google-appengine@googlegroups.com [mailto:google-appengine@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of AppDev Sent: Friday, May 04, 2012 6:28 PM To: google-appengine@googlegroups.com Subject: [google-appengine] Can I use python-gnupg in my application? I'm writing a service that

RE: [google-appengine] Re: What am I being build for?

2012-04-25 Thread Brandon Wirtz
This min charge is dumb, and I got snagged on this too. Why can't you just be billed only if you go over? Because Google is losing money on you already. I don't have insight in to the exact numbers, but much like banks with Checking and Savings Accounts. Banks lose money on accounts with less

RE: [google-appengine] Why I build on App Engine

2012-04-18 Thread Brandon Wirtz
Build for Facebook Scale, or don't bother to build. That's my battle cry. If you don't aim for the stars you will never reach the moon. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Google App Engine group. To post to this group, send email to

RE: [google-appengine] What to Do about AppSpot App that is stealing copyrighted material?

2012-04-17 Thread Brandon Wirtz
You can block URL Fetches from GAE by checking the request headers which will identify as both GAE and the Application ID that is making the request. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Google App Engine group. To post to this group, send email to

RE: [google-appengine] What to Do about AppSpot App that is stealing copyrighted material?

2012-04-17 Thread Brandon Wirtz
Hey, who said you get to play good cop this time?? I always play the good cop. I beat the dumb people, they get smarter long term. It's all about how long it takes to see that I'm right. ;-) Oh you meant the Nice cop. Yeah well, I figure this guy is just passing by. He won't be here in a

RE: [google-appengine] Inefficient Session Implementation on Google App Engine / Java GAE Critics

2012-04-16 Thread Brandon Wirtz
it. Then when people complain in the forums we could say RTFM and be done with it. Brandon Wirtz BlackWaterOps: President / Lead Mercenary Description: http://www.linkedin.com/img/signature/bg_slate_385x42.jpg Work: 510-992-6548 Toll Free: 866-400-4536 IM: drak...@gmail.com (Google

RE: [google-appengine] Inefficient Session Implementation on Google App Engine / Java GAE Critics

2012-04-16 Thread Brandon Wirtz
Our application is new and 100% build and optimized for GAE. I realize English may not be your primary language, but you did read the article your wrote right? Optimized for GAE and Uses Sessions are not the same. Also, if you check stack overflow there are about 1000 posts telling you

[google-appengine] PageSpeed Trusted Tester

2012-04-16 Thread Brandon Wirtz
I saw there is a GAE Page Speed Trusted tester program. I just added my name to the list. But has anyone ever seen an improvement using this? All the tests I have run it has slowed down my sites. Granted Nothing from google is likely to be as cool as my CDNinaBox.com product. but even

RE: [google-appengine] PageSpeed Trusted Tester

2012-04-16 Thread Brandon Wirtz
http://www.webpagetest.org/result/120417_W7_94a0f5bf6f59e2865b3d0725dccbca1b / In case you want a sample result. From: google-appengine@googlegroups.com [mailto:google-appengine@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Brandon Wirtz Sent: Monday, April 16, 2012 10:24 PM To: google-appengine

RE: [google-appengine] $500 support - your experiences

2012-04-14 Thread Brandon Wirtz
hosting costs more. No support contract will fix that. There is a last use case for the $500. GAE is guaranteed to stick around for you longer. Though if 90% of GAE went away, you wouldn't want to stick around long because all the elasticity would have gone out of it. Brandon Wirtz

RE: [google-appengine] Re: Outages?

2012-04-13 Thread Brandon Wirtz
My guess is that the number is close to 60s. If GAE gets marginally slower, it pushes you over the edge. I'll be doing a video very shortly about how to keep your Instances from dying on startup. But one easy way to tell if this is the issue is to up your instance size AND test that you are

[google-appengine] If you Get Died Unexpectedly' errors you need a bigger instance

2012-04-10 Thread Brandon Wirtz
rocket science but I have seen this crop up on the list before so I am posting this so that it can be found by Search Engines. Brandon Wirtz BlackWaterOps: President / Lead Mercenary Description: http://www.linkedin.com/img/signature/bg_slate_385x42.jpg Work: 510-992-6548 Toll Free: 866-400

RE: [google-appengine] Re: Master/Slave Datastore, thanks for all your hard work

2012-04-09 Thread Brandon Wirtz
GAE is a PaaS not a IaaS. Your comment implies you are treating GAE as the latter not the former. As long as that is your mindset you will always be very sad, and unhappy with the service and how your software performs on it. -Original Message- From: google-appengine@googlegroups.com

[google-appengine] Mult-Tenancy Expected Behavior

2012-03-30 Thread Brandon Wirtz
MemCache will use Namespace for multi-tenant apps. And while it has always been a bit vague as to the size of the MemCache. If I have 100 Tenants with 100 name spaces. Does each one get 1/100th the memcache? Or do I magically get 100x the memcache amount? I'm about to have one of my own test

[google-appengine] RE: Mult-Tenancy Expected Behavior

2012-03-30 Thread Brandon Wirtz
Never Mind. My data about how things works seems to be old. I have 610M of memcache at the moment, on a single tenant. So even if that is shared across 100 tenants life will still be happy. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Google App Engine group.

RE: [google-appengine] Re: No reply from Google support concerning pricing

2012-03-28 Thread Brandon Wirtz
Pricing is on the website. If you want to know the cost to run an app you built, build a skeleton that simulates the operations you are going to perform and test. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Google App Engine group. To post to this group, send

RE: [google-appengine] Re: In your opinion what are the most complex web applications built on top of google app engine ?

2012-03-28 Thread Brandon Wirtz
How do you talk to App Engine team in person? sign me up :) Option A: (If you are fast) Google IO. Option B: (If you have a budget for Alcohol) Go to Mountain View and Invite everyone from the AppEngine List for Beer. Option C: (If you are in the Pacific Rim) Travel to Australia and Kidnap

RE: [google-appengine] Please can someone help with my question about the setting up the google app engine ?

2012-03-27 Thread Brandon Wirtz
3 minutes. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Google App Engine group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more

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