Are you doing any kind of retries on timeouts?

On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 12:10 PM, Rob Osborne <[email protected]>wrote:

>
> The short answer.  Don't.
>
> I convinced a client to use GAE and we both regret it.  The App keeps
> going down at inopportune moments,  the scheduled maintenance outages
> are in prime time.  For the small number of users (about 600) we get
> far too many complaints about time out errors.  They are random and
> there is nothing I can do to fix them.  I don't even see timeouts in
> the two slow admin pages, they only happen to users.
>
> The largest issue I have right now is Risk.  Things keep breaking, you
> can not fix them yourselves and there is nobody to call.  You post it
> here and hope they can fix.
>
> Because our app has a small user base GAE is essentially free.  But
> I've spent enough time and heart ache with GAE that I should have used
> EC2, it would have been cheaper.  I've got several clients now with
> more than a year without problems on EC2.  Well, without problems
> caused by EC2 :-)
>
> There are other hosting solutions that have worked out the kinks, GAE
> has not.  It's not ready for prime time.
>
> Rob.
>
> On Oct 14, 12:52 am, Richard <[email protected]> wrote:
> > hello,
> >
> > the App Engine webpage has lots of good information for developers
> > like us, but what about for our clients?
> >
> > My client is skeptical about deploying on GAE, so I'd like to show him
> > some propaganda about uptime, costs, etc. Is there anything available,
> > ideally a short video?
> >
> > cheers,
> > Richard
> >
>


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