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Google App Engine turns 2

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Re: Google App Engine turns 2

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Post by ez77 »

I have the feeling this is an old question, but I can't find a specific answer. Is it possible to host a Google App only with your custom domain while disabling the appspot.com URL? I could understand this being a restriction on free accounts, but does it also apply to paying customers?

Thanks

PS: If not possible, is there a way to redirect your appspot.com URL to your custom URL?

Re: Google App Engine turns 2

#22

Post by ez77 »

ordinaryman wrote: post #3

Apart from being the tipping point - nudging me to start out on my own with its liberal free quotas, I should also thank Google App Engine for not supporting Java during the initial release and thus exposing me to Python. Coming from corporate Java and RDBMS world, the non-RDBMS datastore (BigTable), Python and having to scale while being more resource conscious, have all been pleasant experiences.

Just out of curiosity, what tools (text editor, shell, IDE, etc.) do you use when working on GAE?

Re: Google App Engine turns 2

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Post by ordinaryman »

ez77 wrote: post #21

I have the feeling this is an old question, but I can't find a specific answer. Is it possible to host a Google App only with your custom domain while disabling the appspot.com URL? I could understand this being a restriction on free accounts, but does it also apply to paying customers? Thanks PS: If not possible, is there a way to redirect your appspot.com URL to your custom URL?

Ideally, if you do not publicize the App ID / appspot domain, it is not likely to be known & requested.

Anyway, the simplest way to do this will be to redirect requests received on the appspot domain to your custom domain, from within your code.

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Post by ordinaryman »

ez77 wrote: post #22
ordinaryman wrote: post #3

Apart from being the tipping point - nudging me to start out on my own with its liberal free quotas, I should also thank Google App Engine for not supporting Java during the initial release and thus exposing me to Python. Coming from corporate Java and RDBMS world, the non-RDBMS datastore (BigTable), Python and having to scale while being more resource conscious, have all been pleasant experiences.

Just out of curiosity, what tools (text editor, shell, IDE, etc.) do you use when working on GAE?

Emacs & cmd.exe

Re: Google App Engine turns 2

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Post by ez77 »

ez77 wrote: post #21

I have the feeling this is an old question, but I can't find a specific answer. Is it possible to host a Google App only with your custom domain while disabling the appspot.com URL? I could understand this being a restriction on free accounts, but does it also apply to paying customers? Thanks PS: If not possible, is there a way to redirect your appspot.com URL to your custom URL?

I found a relevant discussion: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1364733/block-requests-fr...

Re: Google App Engine turns 2

#27

Post by arachnid »

axiom wrote: post #2

Until they speed up the datastore by a factor of 10 the app engine just isn't a viable platform. They don't even use it internally for that very reason (this is coming from colleagues who work there.)

We're constantly working on improving datastore performance, but asking for a factor of 10 improvement is outside the bounds of reasonableness: that would bring latencies well under that of a disk seek, so unless you're prepared to pay to have all your data stored in ram, it's effectively impossible for reads.
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