Hey Everyone, First of all - we feel your pain about needing to set up a Google Apps account for App Engine. You shouldn't need to sign up two services just to associate a domain name with your project. We're actively working on fixing this. In the meantime, I would encourage anyone affected by this to star the issue mentioned above, as Jason suggests.
Second of all - just to reiterate what some in this thread have already pointed out - we are no longer able to provide free Google Apps accounts for Google App Engine users. Instead we are offering a USD 50 credit for App Engine applications that need to create a Google Apps for Business account in order to associate their application with a custom domain to help offset the cost of setting up a Google Apps for Business account. The full details and terms for this credit, as well as instructions on how to apply, are here - http://goo.gl/akrPB. If you're eligible, just complete the form and we'll apply the credit within 14 days and send you an e-mail once it's done. We've also set up [email protected] to handle any questions about the credit. Finally - this only affects new domains registered through Google Apps. Existing Google Apps Standard accounts will continue to work. James, thanks for pointing out the mistake in the documentation - I'll ask our docs guys to correct it ASAP. In the meantime, the process for associating a custom domain with Google Apps is described correctly here - https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/domain. Thanks, and again we hope to have a much better answer to this problem for you all soon. On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 9:12 AM, Jason Collins <[email protected]>wrote: > Three credits? Well that's not going to work well for our business > model.... > > Everyone should star this so that we can get rid of this silly Google Apps > dependency: > https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=8528 > > j > > > On Wednesday, 10 July 2013 08:46:31 UTC-6, James Gilliam wrote: >> >> Another issue ... >> >> This link says that a google developer can only request three credits ... >> I launch lots of sites with my GAE account >> >> https://docs.google.com/forms/**d/**1lSDA5Jol0Bosaop3RKZ9YqlSyzVLs** >> CtAv8gYupBheR4/viewform<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1lSDA5Jol0Bosaop3RKZ9YqlSyzVLsCtAv8gYupBheR4/viewform> >> >> Horrible jumping over these artificial Google hoops ... I don't even want >> the fracking google apps accounts and now I have to pay for then too >> >> >> On Tuesday, July 9, 2013 9:13:12 PM UTC-7, James Gilliam wrote: >>> >>> Question -- >>> >>> Can GAE people still create a Google Apps Free Account for one user? >>> >>> Many clients don't want google apps, but we need google apps to use it >>> to launch their custom domain. >>> >>> We look forward to being able to launch a GAE site without google apps >>> at all. >>> >>> Somebody please tell me the 1 user free account is still available. >>> >>> Thanks >>> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- Andrew Jessup | Product Manager, Google App Engine | [email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
