In my opinion YES! Before HRD I considered GAE a bit of a joke. So many datastore timeouts, random errors, etc. AFTER HRD I believe GAE is extremely stable.
If your app makes heavy use of the datstore I would highly recommend HRD. On Jul 5, 3:03 pm, "Brandon Wirtz" <[email protected]> wrote: > It really comes down to do you need the uptime. > > There are some of my old apps that I don't care, and they run just fine. I > have a couple of apps I wrote code so that writes go to an HR instance and > get re-written to the MS when MS allows writes again. > > -Brandon > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Joshua Smith > Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2011 12:36 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [google-appengine] Do I really need to switch to HR? > > I have several apps and I've got this pesky to-do list item for all of them, > to switch them over to the HR datastore. > > In preparation, I've read blog entries by people who have done this, and I'm > still on the fence about whether it is worth the trouble. > > I get very few datastore timeouts in my apps, and periodic maintenance has > never really been an issue. > > I've read about gotchas with eventual consistency, and it seems unlikely > that I could convince myself that I'm safe from this for any reasonably > complex app. (I'm not concerned that I cannot reprogram the apps to fix the > problem, but rather I'm concerned that I could not ensure there weren't > going to be problems. If it ain't broke...) > > I'm not clear on how I would go about getting google to grandfather my old > 2000 emails quotas if I create a new -hr version of my app. > > I've also read that migrating uses TONS of CPU, and it is therefore going to > cost me money to do. > > Really, the only reason TO do the switch is that I've read repeated > admonitions from google that I *should* be using HR. > > What's the consensus here? Is it worth the time, risk, and cost? > > -Joshua > > -- > 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.
