Hi C30, This is definitely not allowed, as per section 4.4 of the Google App Engine Terms of Service (http://code.google.com/appengine/terms.html):
"4.4. You may not develop multiple Applications to simulate or act as a single Application or otherwise access the Service in a manner intended to avoid incurring fees." Nick On 29 September 2010 15:05, charming30 <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello GAE Experts, > > I am trying to see if it possible to build an App which uses multiple > Google App Engine Accounts - sort of a distributed App on GAE. > > Fact: Each Google Account can have upto 10 Google AppEngine Apps under it. > > My Requirement: What i am trying to do is to see if my Media intensive App > can be distributed over multiple GAE Apps so that it will remain within the > FREE quota in terms of storage and CPU processing. > > Design Concept: A mother ship App on one Google AppEngine App. Multiple > Child Google AppEngines Apps under different Google Accounts which are just > interfaces to their Datastore. Google Provides a way to connect to remote > datastore from one App to another. > > 1. So effectively, The mother Ship has the real App which my users will > access. > 2. The Mother App has meta data about which child app has what data. > 3. Mother App interfaces with child apps through remote Datastore Api > to get what it wants. > 4. All incoming and data transfer will happen only via Mother App. > Outgoing could be directly from the child App (hot-linking etc). In this > case I will need to pay for heavy data transfer in - i understand this. > > Result: If I have 10 Child Apps, I get 10GB free quota storage instead of > 1GB typically provided for a single Google AppEngine App. > > My Requirement: To build a Media intensive App which needs very large > storage, probably in terabytes. I dont want to use AWS S3 or other services > at the moment, until time is right. I am most comfortable with GAE. > > My Questions: > > 1. Is this legal? (Google Team, please comment on this) > > 2. What pit falls exist in this concept ? > > 3. I will be using Java, any libraries that may help? 4. Anyone has done > anything like this? > > Please advice.. :-) > > C30 > > -- > 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]<google-appengine%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://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.
