2011/4/7 Simon Knott <[email protected]> > Hi, > > As Las has said, it's a global service - the "middle of the day" downtime > for you was early morning downtime for me! I guess it would be better if > the scheduled downtime was staggered, so that it impacted a different set of > applications each time, but I'm guessing Google are constrained with > resources. Have you considered moving to an HR application, so that the > planned downtime doesn't impact you? > This is a good idea and my gut feeling is telling me it should be possible. You could basically specify your apps geographical availability (say by continent) and Google could group apps onto a set of nodes using these hints. Maintenance would take place by "regions". I'm not sure how much control the GAE folks have over the underlying storage infrastructure though.
> > Las, as far as I'm aware all of the GAE servers are in North America and > aren't distributed around the globe. > Too bad :) > > Cheers, > Simon > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
