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It is embarrassing for google app engine to allow unusual spikes like that to bring a site down. What better PR strategy to let the sites up and running to show
by Kilimanjaro 15y ago
It is embarrassing for google app engine to allow unusual spikes like that to bring a site down. What better PR strategy to let the sites up and running to show that no google property can ever be slashdotted/dugg/hackernewsed?
Google please fix this mess, elegantly.
- Kilimanjaro 15y agoHow would I fix it you may ask? Well for app engine free riders like me, just allow one or two excessive spikes per month. That way if you have a blog nobody reads but is front-paged once in a blue moon, you won't go down in flames making app engine look bad. Now those being on the spotlight more than twice please consider upgrading your account or adding a banner at the bottom of your site "indestructibly hosted on app engine" to continue free riding.
- obtu 15y agoPossibly the author is doing something inefficient that shouldn't happen in a mostly-static blog? In which case Google could provide a bit of load testing so that people know their site won't survive a social aggregator. Or offer some read-only version, idk.