On Sun, 2012-03-25 at 17:34 +0100, lkcl luke wrote: > On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 4:55 PM, Steve Spicklemire <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks to your help Jim, I've been tinkering with pyramid/pyjs/SQL and have > > an app I've been using in the classroom to track various student activities > > from my phone! > > wow. we need more stories about people doing things like this. > > > > It's great. Forgive my ignorance about GAE, but what does it bring to > the party that I don't have already? I'm running my app behind apache > at the moment. > > you wouldn't have to run apache. i believe the deal is that as long > as you stay below certain CPU and bandwidth limits, google doesn't > charge you any money. >
Yes. What Luke said. Plus, if you have a weather-sensitive Internet provider, things like snowstorms and lightning strikes do not bring your app down, because you can run it on Google's infrastructure. If your users can get to Google, they can get to your app. - Jim Washington
