Interesting note about the ISP/DNS issue... if the problem recurs again (it's working fine at the moment), I'll try the appspot version to see if it is indeed DNS.
Thanks Chris On Aug 3, 4:13 pm, Tim Hoffman <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > I am not seeing any DeadlineExceeded today. > > Whenever we have had problems we definately see errors in the > dashboard log. > If you don't see anything in the dashboard then the requests are not > even making it to > your application. In that case the problem will be somewhere else. > > Possibly in the front end google proxy infrastructure, but more > likely > an ISP or DNS issue. > > T > > On Aug 3, 11:42 am, "chris.khoo" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Hi Tim > > > What do you mean by startup times and keeping things fast? If you > > mean timeouts (i.e. 30 second limit) or errors, I'm not getting any of > > those (dashboard shows zero errors). GAE system status shows > > everything is "fine". > > > To be more specific about my error, I haven't been getting many HTTP > > responses back from my app for the past few days. The requests have > > essentially gone into the ether. My local connection is fast and > > every other website I access works fine. > > > I'm guessing then my problem is localised to some single point of > > failure in GAE's infrastructure. > > > On a per user basis, the app would make approximately one AJAX request > > per second... that touches the datastore in a small way (update > > boolean and integer values in two entities within a transaction). > > > I had written this in PHP beforehand for a shared hosting environment, > > and it dropped maybe 1 request a week, if even that. > > > Put it this way, my app is hardly taxing the system. > > > But for the past 3 days, I had to refresh the browser maybe once every > > 2-3 minutes when it was just hanging. And this is not the first time > > GAE has been painstakingly slow for me. > > > I really like Google, and that's why I tried out GAE. But the > > infrastructure is letting me down terribly. > > > Chris > > > On Aug 3, 1:02 pm, Tim Hoffman <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi > > > > On Aug 3, 10:01 am, "chris.khoo" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Hi > > > > > One of my apps -www.neuroncafe.comisdroppingwaytoo many requests > > > > at the moment. > > > > No > > > > > Anyone feeling the pain as well? > > > > No > > > > > To be honest, I'm very disappointed with GAE so far. I'm not writing > > > > any more apps on it until things improve. > > > > Whilst there have been some hiccups along the way I have been involved > > > in a number of appengine > > > projects and would say that has been a great success for us to date. > > > I suppose application type and > > > how well you can reduce startup times and keep things fast, will > > > impact your success levels on appengine. > > > > Rgds > > > > T > > > > > Chris -- 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.
