On Thursday, April 7, 2011 9:41:55 AM UTC+1, Las wrote: > > > > 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. >
I must admit I was thinking of something simpler, such as: April 5th downtime: 5pm PST April 20th downtime: 7pm PST etc, etc. > > >> >> 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.
