Hi, We are in the process of designing a new web site, we are inspecting the language and platform usage alternatives for our application. We have looked over the interface and the API of appengine amon the alternatives and they seem to perfectly match our requirements and the underlying technology seems very promising. The ease of design seems to make learning curve very short. Maintenance and scalability are not our responsibility, that is perfect, too. However, we still have some doubts/conscerns on the following areas:
- We have previously designed web sites and they faced substantial amount of DDoS. As I read through the appengine FAQ, I see that google is giving guarantee on refund if a site experiences a DDoS attack. But, there is no explanation on what are the terms for an traffic for to be identified and approved as a DoS attack by Google? Any experiences on this? - The other thing is with uploading/downloading/managing application data. It is very good to see that only a single deploy button does everything. But we will currently work with 3 people on this project and as the limitation of downloading the current release in the web forces us to use some kind of a SVN program. We don't want to do that. Update svn and then update the web application. We will need frequent updates to the site, especially statically(changing the design) which will require to upload all the static files, templates all the project together to the web again. At least somehow, please let us download our own code from the server automatically. I think there should be a very good reason to limit that functionality. Or maybe I am missing some functionality in appcfg? - Also, it would be very nice to have a small/rough statistic about the pricing. How much a typical web site will cost us? Any estimation or experience should be shared about this. Only saying that it is competetive is not enough, IMHO. - Last question is: Is the database allocated for our application will be used internally by Google. I cannot see any text/reference for that but just asking curiosity. Regards, Sumer Cip --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
