[google-appengine] Future of Google App Engine?

2009-09-16 Thread Rob Osborne
I hope this posting doesn't come across as harsh. I'm just being pragmatic about what I need to do for the applications I'm currently running and developing on Google App Engine and for the users on those applications. I read the email "Maintenance Schedule for 2009" with some dismay, the three

[google-appengine] App went off line at 12 noon PST for 5 minutes ... what happened?

2009-09-21 Thread Rob Osborne
One of my apps stopped responding today at around 3pm EST or 12pm PST for about 5 minutes. Dynamic pages errored on a db timeout and the static pages took 12+ seconds to respond. The app was in use at the time so this wasn't a pre-loading issue. A test version of the app shows a spike on the cr

[google-appengine] Strange and Worrying Invite Issues

2009-10-07 Thread Rob Osborne
I'm having problems attaching another developer to one of my Google App Engine apps. The first invite went to her Google Apps email account. She created at Google Account using that email address and can not use the invite. Essentially the invite link keeps getting her redirected to the App Eng

[google-appengine] Problem with Email Quotas

2009-10-14 Thread Rob Osborne
I have an application that sends a notification email to users based upon certain criteria. Unfortunately, I quickly hit the quota limit since I run this notification once a day and it wants to send the messages in the cron task. So my cron task aborts due to quota limits and I'm capped at sendi

[google-appengine] Re: how to convince client

2009-10-15 Thread Rob Osborne
The short answer. Don't. I convinced a client to use GAE and we both regret it. The App keeps going down at inopportune moments, the scheduled maintenance outages are in prime time. For the small number of users (about 600) we get far too many complaints about time out errors. They are rando

[google-appengine] Re: Problem with Email Quotas

2009-10-16 Thread Rob Osborne
spread things out, and retry when sends fail. > > -Nick Johnson > > On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 10:20 PM, Rob Osborne wrote: > > > > > > > > > I have an application that sends a notification email to users based > > upon certain criteria.  Unfortunately, I