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 > > > -- Alkis --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
