I have always wondered the same thing. One minute there is an issue, a few days later it never happened. Google is far from alone with such issues which is why there are websites/services that monitor cloud status.
It may be a little unfair calling the app engine team dishonest. Trying to change something in a large organization can be a very unrewarding experience. On Nov 17, 9:24 am, trilok <[email protected]> wrote: > Google app engine hello, > > Let me first specify that I am a paying app engine user for about 1.5 > years. We, at my company, have developed an online restaurant takeout/ > delivery ordering service running completely on the appengine. We > currently serve over 50 restaurants in my home country, and are now > expanding abroad with restaurants in Canada, Hungary, Belgium, UK, and > more. > > Ever since the appengine's release from production a week ago, there > has been 3 (!!!) major disruptions - On 7th for 45 minutes, yesterday > for 30 minutes, and right now. I understand that failures occur, but > specifying a "99.95%" and being so far from it is to me a major > failure on the part of Google. > > To make matters worse, we, AppEngine's paying users, NEVER receive any > explanations or descriptions of the cause of the failure, the solution > and Google's efforts to prevent its returning occurance. Not by any > means to compare, but EC2's team constantly admit and report ALL of > the failures and their debriefing! > > And now for the "cherry on the top", and the reason I used the word > 'dishonesty' - You remove any note of the disruption from System > Status. For example, yesterday there was a disruption causing 40 secs > (!!!) of latency in response. Today viewing the System Status, > yesterday is marker with "No significant issues". That to me is > dishonesty and a clear cut lie. > > Unfortunately, our service is now so deeply connect to the AppEngine > framework that leaving this service is currently not an option, but I > would definitively not advise or recommend anyone to use the AppEngine > today, and my next product will definitely not run on the AppEngine. > > Regards, > > - Yoav. -- 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.
