Hi Philip i guess you could write a simple script reporting the number of simultaneous connections on each server, and periodically fetch these info from your GAE app so you know where to direct users to. u could also check geo-map the incoming IPs and send them to different servers, if you want.
Herbert On May 25, 2:57 pm, Flips <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Pieter, > > app engine's traffic is way too expensive for me, thats why I want to > use virtual servers for this. > > My problem is how I could *cheaply* analyse the requests to decide > which server the client should be redirected. > > Best Regards > Philip > > On 25 Mai, 08:52, Pieter Coucke <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > Have you thought of using the appengine blobstore for downloads? It > > supports files up to 2 GB and is scalable > > already.http://code.google.com/intl/nl-BE/appengine/docs/java/blobstore/overv... > > > You could keep the servers listed in the datastore or memcache and ping them > > with a cron to see if they're still alive. > > When a new server comes up, you can do a http call to a service (which runs > > on appengine) which adds the server to the list of available servers. > > > I think the main problem you will have here is that appengine will limit > > your amount of simultaneous connections if your response takes longer than > > one second. This will not be a problem if you simply redirect your users > > though. > > > -- > > Pieter Coucke > > Onthoo BVBAhttp://www.onthoo.comhttp://www.koopjeszoeker.be > > > -- > > 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 > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > > -- > 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 > athttp://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. -- 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.
