Use App Engine and Go to Host a Static Website with Same Domain Redirects
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Re: Use App Engine and Go to Host a Static Website with Same Domain Redirects
#2Or even simpler you can use S3 redirects to send all of your old URLs to their new location on the same host. I'm currently doing this from both an old domain to a new domain and within the same domain and "It Just Works" (tm)
Re: Use App Engine and Go to Host a Static Website with Same Domain Redirects
#3Thrifty way to do this. Seems the golang code, though, isn't setting any expires or cache-control headers (for the static content it's serving), so your browser ends up re-downloading a lot of assets that it doesn't need to.
Might be nice to add that bit in. Better performance for visitors, and would keep you in the free tier longer if traffic grows.
Re: Use App Engine and Go to Host a Static Website with Same Domain Redirects
#4Thrifty way to do this. Seems the golang code, though, isn't setting any expires or cache-control headers (for the static content it's serving), so your browser ends up re-downloading a lot of assets that it doesn't need to. Might be nice to add that bit in. Better performance for visitors, and would keep you in the free tier longer if traffic grows.
You are correct, and great points. This is my first Golang app, so doing what you suggested is my next step. Thanks!
Re: Use App Engine and Go to Host a Static Website with Same Domain Redirects
#5Or even simpler you can use S3 redirects to send all of your old URLs to their new location on the same host. I'm currently doing this from both an old domain to a new domain and within the same domain and "It Just Works" (tm)
app engine static files are dispatched by google cdn network for free. CloudFront is not free.
Re: Use App Engine and Go to Host a Static Website with Same Domain Redirects
#6I host my static website using Firebase and Google Domains. Google has easy integration between the two and seems to include all the listed benefits out-of-box.
Re: Use App Engine and Go to Host a Static Website with Same Domain Redirects
#7Often when I recommend GAE to someone the answer is: "but it's Google they are known to abandon their services". That and also the fear of being locked into Googles Cloud ecosystem pushes many potential customers away.
Re: Use App Engine and Go to Host a Static Website with Same Domain Redirects
#8Or even simpler you can use S3 redirects to send all of your old URLs to their new location on the same host. I'm currently doing this from both an old domain to a new domain and within the same domain and "It Just Works" (tm)
app engine static files are dispatched by google cdn network for free. CloudFront is not free.
I think the OP is subverting the CDN functionality since the static assets are flowing through the golang code.
Re: Use App Engine and Go to Host a Static Website with Same Domain Redirects
#9Or just use Netlify: https://www.netlify.com/
Re: Use App Engine and Go to Host a Static Website with Same Domain Redirects
#10Often when I recommend GAE to someone the answer is: "but it's Google they are known to abandon their services". That and also the fear of being locked into Googles Cloud ecosystem pushes many potential customers away.
GAE gives at least a year after deprecation before turning off a feature. https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/deprecations/
(I work on Google Cloud and on Datastore, which is built into App Engine. We bend over backwards to support existing code.)