Using cron to keep your app warm is not sanctioned either. If Google wanted to give you a way to keep your app running, they'd offer it as a feature and charge for it.
If these hacks become commonplace, GAE engineers will be retasked to fighting them and this will further delay new features that I care about like next-generation queries. Furthermore, the collateral damage of closing these loopholes might impact all our apps (such as, hypothetically, a surcharge for crons more frequent than 30 mins). Furthermore, if you hope to build a real business on top of appengine, you're getting off on the wrong foot by alienating the folks at Google. Don't expect to get your questions answered in this forum, and don't be surprised if your app gets blocked in some way. Read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons Jeff On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 10:44 PM, Max <[email protected]> wrote: > hi Jeff, > > AFAIK, lots of GAE developers are using cron job to *warm up*, including > me. You can search in this group, many ppl are doing this. > > Also, if we want something more than a periodic ping, like those use cases > you mentioned, then we probably don't want all these logic stay with in our > business logic. This is the real benefit of this project and now is just the > first step. But since such monitoring tools will enable "warm up" feature as > a side effect, I will need to know this groups' idea before going further. > > Again, I don't intend to go against *always on instance* solution. I am > just sharing my work so that other developers don't have to setup cron jobs > every time. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-appengine/-/ht3qDc6Z984J. > > 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.
