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What is difference between Google appEngine and other web-hostings such as tomcat hosting?
in other words, what is difference between paas and regular web-hosting? is web-hosting a paas or saas?
PaaS : Is Platform as a service : It means they provide what they provide - take it or leave it. GAE is an example of this. You can do whatever rules they set. You just concern yourself with application - not admin concerns like scaling, security ... .
Regular web hosting : essentially give you a *nix box for you to play with. You need to set it up, configure it and do the magic.
Regular web hosting can be virtual machines on the cloud like Rackspace, Amazon, Azure among others, or some guy renting you his machine in a basement, or something in between.
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Which do you think is easier for a beginner who lacks of knowledge of setting up a server?
Or, in other words: if I want to start a website, is learning the infrastructure of Google App Engine or learning the normal way to host a website easier?
I have spent some time learning Django, Python, AngularJS and Google App Engine.
AppEngine is PaaS - you can host there your apps. So you do not have to deal with the servlet container, datastore, cron jobs, scaling etc.
Compute Engine is Google's IaaS - you get a VM and you can do with it whatever you like.
Basically these 2 are completely 2 different things, for different use cases. What do you have? an app? or do you need to install other things on the machine? After you come up with answers to this, you will have the answer...
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I have been working on a website with Google App Engine for the past few months and I haven't really had to worry about people adding new data or disrupting users when the site went down because I had very few users but I am now planning on rolling the website out to many people.
The site involves users posting topics and I generally when I am making changed on the site I need to have some database entries to work with. I was wondering what is the most professional and efficient way to develop a website while it is in production and not lose user data or downgrade the user experience all that much.
What would be ideal would be if I could split something like 10% of traffic off onto the new site that I am testing but I haven't found anything like this with GAE.
Have you seen traffic splitting? It allows you to send a percentage of your users to an alternative app version, E.g. testing.example.appspot.com
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Hi i'm trying to host my blog on Google App Engine (Google quality & free ...) i looked everywhere for a solution.
I love jekyll project but since it's developed with ruby i can't host it on appengine.
I found hyde project ( which kind of python implemented version of jekyll) i'm thinking to use it on appengine, Are there anyone who's already using it on google appengine ?
The most possible solution is "microlog", it's a Wordpress like python implementation on GAE. jekyll is not very suitable for GAE applications, because it's workflow is Write-Generate Static Files-Publish. On GAE you cannot access the filesystem, so it's not very easy to have such a framework.
PS: if you like, you can generate static pages and store them in the database, but I cannot see the point of doing this than just store data in db and render them on the fly.
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I am putting together a little site run on Google App Engine (python27 + django + webapp2). The objective of the site is to serve paid for video tutorials, much like lynda.com.
I'm trying to find the best (and cheapest) way of keeping the videos behind a paywall. In other words a customer is only able to view the videos on my site and if they've paid a subscription.
I've considered simply putting them on GAE, however the recent price increases have made me reluctant to do so and I was wondering if there were any other solutions available?
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You need to authenticate users: implement your own login system or use OpenID (federated login).
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I know this question was asked early last year, but I'm interested if anything has changed (its mid-April 2011)? I basically want to know if GAE is dying or growing?
Is there a current comparison anywhere of who's using cloud services from Amazon, MS, and Google?
GAE is definitely growing. For computationally light python webapps I would say that there's few to none better services available, primarily because of the on demand charges. With amazon you always have to have an ec2 instance of some form or another running, but with GAE you can go days between visitors and not pay a cent until somebody visits your site. I've had a fairly complex app running primarily doing web scraping of about 3000 pages a day and I've only paid $0.02 so far when I accidentally set up a loop that wasn't exiting properly.
However I am coming from a python perspective. The elastic beanstalk on amazon seems to be java focused so it's nothing I have any experience with.
There was a comparison of GAE, Amazon Bean Stalk and CloudBees recently.
It relates to using PaaS for Java applications but you can see if it helps you.
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I myself don't know which is best, but I would keep an eye out for Cloud Foundry VMWare's PaaS solution seems like a really good deal if it can live up to the hype.