Brandon, Thanks for taking out time to share your experience & knowledge. This would save us quite a lot of time & effort.
Sam On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 4:55 AM, Brandon Wirtz <[email protected]> wrote: > This started as a Response to Vlad, and then I decided to make it more of a > 10 things to know about Apps For Domains, and I ended up with 11.**** > > ** ** > > I’m not a Googler, but I can guess, that on average Apps For Domains makes > more money for Goog, than GAE does. If Google can get you to sign up for > email on 20 users, that adds up to a lot of money, and the tracking cookies > on those users on adsense pages adds up to even more. More data is more > money. **** > > ** ** > > Apps For Domains wasn’t horrible until recently, the interface keeps > getting more GoDaddy like. Which may be Familiar to those of use with lots > of domains, but is a very bad thing. I also don’t think Apps For Domains > likes GAE users. You can almost hear the Tech support people in that group > moan when they hear you have an issue with GAE. (at one point my subdomains > all disappeared and wouldn’t let me redeploy them because they were in use > and Apps for Domains told me it was a Code Problem)**** > > ** ** > > If you are setting up Apps for domain, I have over the last month or so > decided that you should follow some simple rules…**** > > ** ** > > **1. **Don’t set the admin account to a user account you use for > anything else. This makes the email notifications harder to see, but will > save you unified login headaches over, and over. **** > > **2. **Pony up the $10 for a paid account. This sucks, especially > for test domains, but you don’t get support otherwise. Sometimes you don’t > get support even if you paid, but being able to at least call someone will > make your life less of a Pain when something goes wrong.**** > > **3. **Validate your domain using the DNS TXT entry not the HTML > upload. If your HTML file becomes unreachable you may suddenly be unable to > connect.**** > > **4. **While you can have multiple domains with one account, as the > primary if you ever sell that domain you can’t un-associate it, which is a > PITA (More for the buyer than the seller) so don’t do this.**** > > **5. **Don’t enable “Multiple Logins” on your Google Logins for any > of your Apps For Domains admin accounts. While this seems to be well tested > for GMAIL and Adsense, sometimes sessions get messed up and you will find > that you are making changes to the wrong account.**** > > **6. **Use Incognito Windows when administrating your Apps For > Domains Accounts. Similar to above sessions don’t seem to work write in Apps > For domain.**** > > **7. **Don’t Administer accounts in IE9 or FireFox. Google seems to > test only against Chrome, and some of the Dynamic elements on the page don’t > always line up in IE9 and FireFox.**** > > **8. **Don’t even login to Apps For Domains via a Mobile Device or > Android Tablet. It seems the Pre-Caching on these is a little over-zealous > and will often select all the options on some pages. (Awesome Sauce let me > tell you)**** > > **9. **Don’t use Root, Or Admin for the administrative Email User > Name**** > > **10. **Don’t Use the same Password across all your Apps For domains > accounts.**** > > **11. **Login to your account altleast once a month, the TOS and > deployed apps change and sometimes if you miss a change things will just > happen without your knowledge.**** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > *Brandon Wirtz > *BlackWaterOps: President / Lead Mercenary **** > > [image: Description: > http://www.linkedin.com/img/signature/bg_slate_385x42.jpg]**** > > *Work:* 510-992-6548 > *Toll Free:* 866-400-4536 **** > > *IM:* [email protected] (Google Talk) > *Skype:* drakegreene **** > > BlackWater Ops > <http://www.blackwaterops.com/>**** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > -- > 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.
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