SliceHost has $20/mo slices http://www.slicehost.com/ that will run Lift apps just fine. I know it's not free, but we're all spending $50/mo on a cell phone, $50/mo on bandwidth, etc... so $20/mo doesn't seem like a high barrier.
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 5:56 AM, Jeremy Mawson <[email protected] > wrote: > Yes, for those who wish to tinker and share their tinkerings with the > world, the zero cost entry point* is good. > > I'm also interested in any opinions of which free services are better than > GAE for Lift apps. > > Cheers > Jeremy > > * - yes, I know there is a billing model for increased bandwidth and other > add-ons with GAE. > > > > 2009/4/20 samreid <[email protected]> > > >> If GAE is not a good home for Lift applications, can you recommend >> some alternate hosts? Are there any free alternates? >> >> Thanks, >> Sam Reid >> >> On Apr 17, 3:57 pm, David Pollak <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > Folks, >> > >> > I've just committed a version of Lift (including the Lift Example) that >> runs >> > on the Google App Engine. You can see the running demo at: >> http://liftdemo.appspot.com/ >> > >> > What's missing: >> > >> > - Mapper and Mapper-related stuff. You can use JPA. >> > - Comet. GAE's lack of thread or message queue support is a huge >> > limitation. >> > - Actor-based session-shutdown notification is disabled on GAE. >> > - There's no session affinity guarantee, so there may be problems >> with >> > migrating sessions (I'll be working with the Google folks on this >> issue) >> > >> > Okay... so you can build apps on GAE... I have to wonder... who would >> want >> > to? >> > >> > GAE gives you a highly scalable platform to build CRUD apps. Without a >> > back-end messaging infrastructure, long running processes, threads, >> > inter-session messaging, etc. there's not much in the way of exciting >> apps >> > to build. Here are a list of apps that could not be built with GAE: >> > >> > - Twitter (requires a message bus and back-ground processing) >> > - Facebook (has many of Twitter's requirements) >> > - GoogleTalk >> > - A travel site (the 30 second request duration means that looking >> stuff >> > up on a back end service is not possible) >> > - A multi-player game >> > >> > So... on a $100/mo box from CalPop, I can run a service that will scale >> to >> > 20M requests per day. If I'm doing 20M requests per day, I've got a >> > business where I want more control over my infrastructure than GAE gives >> > me. That might be Amazon EC2 where I can power-up and down boxes at >> will. >> > There are also a number of different scalable storage solutions on >> Amazon. >> > I just can't for the life of me figure out why anyone would want to put >> a >> > Java/Scala app on GAE. >> > >> > Thanks, >> > >> > David >> > >> > -- >> > Lift, the simply functional web frameworkhttp://liftweb.net >> > Beginning Scalahttp://www.apress.com/book/view/1430219890 >> > Follow me:http://twitter.com/dpp >> > Git some:http://github.com/dpp >> >> >> > > > -- > Jeremy Mawson > Senior Developer | Online Directories > > Sensis Pty Ltd > 222 Lonsdale St > Melbourne 3000 > E: [email protected] > > > > > > -- Lift, the simply functional web framework http://liftweb.net Beginning Scala http://www.apress.com/book/view/1430219890 Follow me: http://twitter.com/dpp Git some: http://github.com/dpp --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lift" 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/liftweb?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
