I want to ask fellow GAE users whether you think GAE is good choice to build real business on? I have used GAE for some personal projects, and right now help a friend on a tiny start up (but with big dream). The project is related to social network - I am thinking of two options: 1, GAE The benefits are obvious. However, it is also locking you in....you don't have much control over it. If you are unhappy later, you will have to redo the persistence layer and migrate data etc. 2, EC2 You have much more control, and if the start-up gets funding, it is easy to migrate to dedicated hosting or even its own data center. The down side is developer (me, and only me) will have to spend quite some time to take care of the infrastructure (although I like this kind of work...)
I think my biggest concern of GAE is over the quality of service, and the data-store - if I go EC2, I probably will use a NoSQL solution like MogoDb, or Cassandra. The development efforts might be similar - all products are sort of young, hot, and limited. Thanks. JY -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine for Java" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-java?hl=en.
