Hello Tom, On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 2:30 PM, Tom <[email protected]> wrote:
> Is Wordpress on GAE/PHP ready enough for me to consider migrating his > site? His site is a fairly straight-forward wordpress site > The App Engine staff run their own blog on GAE/PHP at http://gaeforphp-blog.appspot.com/, so it certainly seems ready enough. I have a PHP application on GAE (not a Wordpress instance, but a custom application) and I find the PHP runtime to be quite stable. As an anecdotal experience, the PHP runtime is faster with instance startup than the Java runtime. On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 2:30 PM, Tom <[email protected]> wrote: > Will the cost of running this low volume site be roughly similar to > running it in a WPS at godaddy. It's difficult to estimate cost comparisons without knowing what Godaddy package + any addons you're using now, and without your definition of "low-volume" (ballpark numbers would be very helpful here). Broadly speaking, I would bet that App Engine would be reasonably competitive in regards to price. I briefly skimmed the site you linked to, and it doesn't look too complicated in regards to server-side processing. If you installed a caching plugin such as W3 Super Cache and configured the free version of Cloudflare CDN to sit in front of the site, you could probably serve a majority of the site hits entirely from cache/static pages. On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 2:30 PM, Tom <[email protected]> wrote: > Is there a forum frequented by GAE/PHP devs where I might find someone who > I could pay do do this? I think most activity on this topic is at > stackoverflow and that is not a suitable place for such a query. You said earlier in your email that you know Java/Python, but not PHP. Still, consider trying this project yourself. Uploading a Wordpress install to GAE doesn't require too much PHP knowledge, and once Wordpress is installed, it largely configures itself/offers a GUI to configure most other things. There's a guide to uploading Wordpress here: https://developers.google.com/appengine/articles/wordpress . Try it out. ----------------- -Vinny P Technology & Media Advisor Chicago, IL App Engine Code Samples: http://www.learntogoogleit.com -- 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.
