Our next maintenance period is from 6-8pm, but that's a coincidence more than any other reason.
First off, we really want to encourage you to migrate to High Replication. I can't stress this enough. This allows us to do lots of work to App Engine without impacting your application's service. I know some people have been holding off because the blobstore migration tool doesn't exist yet; this is coming. One of the reasons we like having maintenances at certain times is because of one of App Engine's strengths: it's built using a lot of Google's existing infrastructure (the datastore uses Megastore, which uses BigTable, for instance). By performing maintenance during US/Pacific working hours (or close), we can always ensure that if we need to contact another team, that we can minimize the delay of finding someone at home. We love High Replication because it lets us hide away all of the work that needs to happen to keep a system as large as App Engine online. Please embrace it! -- Ikai Lan Developer Programs Engineer, Google App Engine plus.ikailan.com On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 1:08 PM, Per <[email protected]> wrote: > Although I'm overall happy with GAE, and I know that the maintenance > periods "only" affect M/S. And I don't mind the occasional one either. But > I find it increasingly frustrating that they always have to be scheduled in > the middle of the week, and during a time that most of our US clients would > still call core working hours. > > I am now pasting the third downtime notice in a month onto our > application's dashboard. Yeah I know that one maintenance period didn't > actually happen, but it was cancelled too late, all our clients had already > gotten our downtime warning, which is almost as bad. > > I am wondering why these maintenance periods cannot be done on the > weekend, or at least later during the day? How about 6pm to 8pm PST for > instance? That's still late at night in Europe, it's just about as annoying > for APAC, but at least it's a lot better for US users. And it's not *that* > late so that East Coast Googlers have to get up in the dead of the night > either. > > Or am mistaken and the typical usage pattern is "after hours", because > nobody except for us dared to use GAE for an enterprise application? :) > > -- > 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/-/bK7kFbD_8E4J. > 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.
