Awesome, thanks Jeff. I think doing it this way would make my app use less resources in general which is good for everybody. - Claude
On Mar 26, 2:25 pm, Jeff S <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Claude, > > On Mar 25, 8:27 pm, cz <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > The reason I ask this is for the following scenario: > > My main app uses Django 1.x and has fairly low, but quite useful ;), > > traffic thus often requiring a cold start. It incurs significant > > startup time and so the initial requests are quite slow. The pages > > also contain lots of images uploaded by users which in turn are > > initially very slow to serve up. > > What I'd like to do is use a lighter weight framework just to serve > > images and other pseudo-static content. It would be fairly > > straightforward to simply create a special version of the app that > > when installed has direct access to the same datastore and can be very > > fast. This wouldn't ever be set as the default version of course, but > > would still be 'a part of' the default app and it would be using the > > same quota bank and hopefully wouldn't be a violation of the TOS. > > Anways, after reading the TOS I couldn't find an answer to this. > > > So, in case none of this makes much sense the gist of the question is > > can I have two versions of the app live at the same time (only one > > being the default)? > > Say my app id is 'foo'. I upload 'foo' version 5 and then I also > > upload a 'foo' version 6 with a different main.py and code that is > > optimized for a specific kind of content (eg. images, no templates). > > Version 5 is set as the default but generates pages with image urls > > that point to version 6. > > This would be fine since you are talking about using two versions > under the same app ID. Quotas are applied based on the app ID (not > further down on the version level), so sending traffic to multiple > versions would be pulling from the same quota pool. > > Good question, > > Jeff > > > > > Can I do this under the TOS and still be a good GAE citizen? > > > thanks, > > - Claude --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" 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?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
