> > > Sounds like the blob will be in the 10s of megabytes. I believe GAE > charges for bandwidth based on the pre-gzip-encoding size of requests. > If you have a lot of downloads, you may wish to zip it on write and > deliver a zipfile download to your users, which should dramatically > reduce bandwidth costs. > > GAE doesn't gzip blobs > 1MB from the blobstore . To keep in mind...
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/google-appengine/hv7QOd0ZlKM%5B1-25%5D http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2820 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=5298 > The one 'gotcha' you may run into is that SSL on appengine costs $100/mo. > > Jeff > > On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 11:53 PM, Jordan Bakke > <[email protected]<javascript:>> > wrote: > > I'm writing a very limited-purpose web application that stores about > 10-20k > > user-submitted articles (typically 500-700 words). At any time, any user > > should be able to perform searches on tags and keywords, edit any part > of > > any article (metadata, text, or tags), or download a copy of the entire > > database that is recent up-to-the-hour. (It can be from a cache as long > as > > it is updated hourly.) Activity tends to happen in a few unpredictable > > spikes over a day (wherein many users download the entire database > > simultaneously requiring 100% availability and fast downloads) and > > itermittent weeks of low activity. This usage pattern is set in stone. > > > > Is GAE a wise choice for this application? It appeals to me for its low > cost > > (hopefully free), elasticity of scale, and professional management of > most > > of the stack. I like the idea of an app engine as an alternative to a > host. > > However, the excessive limitations and quotas on all manner of datastore > > usage concern me, as does the trade-off between strong and eventual > > consistency imposed by the datastore's distributed architecture. > > > > Is there a way to fit this application into GAE? Should I use the ndb > API > > instead of the plain datastore API? Or are the requirements so > > data-intensive that GAE is more expensive than hosts like Webfaction? > > > > -- > > 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/-/NZQnuJubU-sJ. > > To post to this group, send email to > > [email protected]<javascript:>. > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected] <javascript:>. > > 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-appengine/-/B6xlogJ3MmgJ. 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.
