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If Heroku is amazing but too expensive, what about Google App Engine? As an under-utilised Google service there is the risk of it being shut down, but aside fro

by jfoster 11y ago

If Heroku is amazing but too expensive, what about Google App Engine? As an under-utilised Google service there is the risk of it being shut down, but aside from that, it delivers on the PaaS promise quite well. The free tier is generous and works on a per-app basis.

aikah 11y ago
> The free tier is generous and works on a per-app basi The RDBMS isn't part of the free tier AFAIK. The free tier has an horrible datastore and some weird limitations. You can't even do external http requests with your own libs you have to use some stuff provided by Google, and it rewrites incoming request headers. Nobody is using AppEngine because it is not a good service, even for free. I'm not talking about the latest "google cloud" PaaS which is a very different service.