Riccardo, some answers:
- i "backup" the source code of my app by using HG or GIT. - google offers data backup via google cloud storage. you can see options for this in the google app engine web admin console - yes it is possible to download GAE data. you'll have to download database data into a CSV file and then do an import into your other system. google has instructions for bulk export/import of data. - if you use the GAE blobstore for large images, copying all that data out is a little harder, but is doable. i've done it for small projects. - yes, to change any code you have to re-deploy your app to GAE. using the GAE SDK you can view changes locally in real time (no reload required). this kind of thing is good development practice in general (having a test environment and a production environment) - yes you can do queries like the one you mention above. there are restrictions for more complex queries. you can read the google docs for this. (or post most specific questions when you hit a roadblock) - no the web2py web admin interface is not available. logs are provided buy the GAE web console. For what it's worth, i love GAE. i'm running several apps, one of them gets over 2.5 million HTTP requests a day and works really well. there is some differences between GAE and "traditional" hosting, but once you learn the rules it's a fun playground to play on. good luck! christian On Tuesday, February 5, 2013 6:17:28 AM UTC-8, Riccardo C wrote: > > Hi All, > > As in the title I'm an absolute beginner... now I'd like to see my app > online. Probably it would be more correct to say that I would learn to > deploy for choosing then the hosting for my app. > I think that using Gae would be the best solution (for a beginner) but I > was not able to find an answer to these questions (I apologise if some of > them might seem trivial to you): > > - I read that I will not have access to the file system. How to do a > backup of the app? > - let say that I want to test the "image gallery" example and after > a couple of day I want to download all the photos uploaded... would it > be > possible? what is possible to do? > - Would it be easy to move in the future the web app to another > hosting service without loosing (db data and static file)? > - I would to change a single view file... what should I do? reload > all the app? > - From the web2py doc "No complex datastore queries. In particular > there are no JOIN, LIKE, and DATE/DATETIME operators." > - would I still be able to ask the database, for example, << tell > me all the post in the database BEFORE Jan 2010? >> > - Would I have the admin web interface available? > - based on the previous questions, do you suggest to use/evaluate > another hosting? which one? > > Thanks for your help and patience....please if there is already an answer > to those questions (and I was not able to find it in the forum) please just > point me to those existing thread. > > Riccardo > -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
