Google Compute Engine available for everyone, App Engine adds PHP
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Google Compute Engine available for everyone, App Engine adds PHP
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Re: Google Compute Engine available for everyone, App Engine adds PHP
#2LOL at adding PHP support to app engine almost 5 years later. PHP gets a lot of bashing but you can't deny its popularity, as evidenced by the number of stars.
https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1...
Re: Google Compute Engine available for everyone, App Engine adds PHP
#3Google Compute Engine - now available for everyone *
* Till its gets some traction, whereupon we will either jack up prices by 100% or more, or till some bigshot at Google kills it saying its not 'strategically aligned'.
Re: Google Compute Engine available for everyone, App Engine adds PHP
#4It looks like they have preemptively documented how to install Wordpress: https://developers.google.com/appengine/articles/wordpress
I wonder how the performance is -- will they support common cache plugins? If not, I wonder if stock wordpress on GAE will be able to withstand getting frontpage'd on HN/Reddit
Edit: Unfortunately, as there is no CloudSQL free tier, there's no way to test it out without paying a small amount.
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#5I can't seem to find the registration form, how does one get started?
Re: Google Compute Engine available for everyone, App Engine adds PHP
#6I can't seem to find the registration form, how does one get started?
I'm Zafir, I work on the Cloud Platform team. Compute Engine will be available tonight, so please check back in a few hours.
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#7LOL at adding PHP support to app engine almost 5 years later. PHP gets a lot of bashing but you can't deny its popularity, as evidenced by the number of stars. https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1...
PHP is only popular because many hosting providers support it.
Many hosting providers only support it because it's popular.
At no point in this equation does the relative merits of the language itself factor in.
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#8I know there's google people floating around HN, does anyone know what the priorities are like as far as adding more services is concerned? I've been planning on launching on AWS, but I'd prefer google. But there's still tons of services google doesn't offer (or I can't find reference to at least). It is basically just alternatives to EC2, S3 and the database thing right now right? Are there plans for replacements for SQS, SNS, SES, route53, cloudwatch, etc?
Re: Google Compute Engine available for everyone, App Engine adds PHP
#9Google Compute Engine - now available for everyone * * Till its gets some traction, whereupon we will either jack up prices by 100% or more, or till some bigshot at Google kills it saying its not 'strategically aligned'.
GCE does not impose any vendor lock-in. It's just VMs on demand, so it would be easy to migrate to Amazon EC2, Rackspace, etc at any point.
Re: Google Compute Engine available for everyone, App Engine adds PHP
#10LOL at adding PHP support to app engine almost 5 years later. PHP gets a lot of bashing but you can't deny its popularity, as evidenced by the number of stars. https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1...
Popularity, yes. I'd argue it largely comes from amateurish developers, though. It can be used at scale, of course[1] but surely it's popularity is as a result of the hordes of amateur developers and shoddy PHP apps, hacks, script repositories and general, unmaintainable spaghetti code?
braces for downvotes (I did try to be fairly balanced, to be fair)
[1]: the wisdom of doing this left to the reader.
Thought: ah, my sibling commenter managed to put it better than me (and less controversially).