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hooray! i have been hoping for this for a while.

• pw 15y ago
  Why?
  • joshu 15y ago
    It makes a bunch of app ideas that I had feasible.
    • ericd 15y ago
      Was Sphinx too much of a PITA to make those workable before?
      • nl 15y ago
        Sphinx, Solr[1] etc cannot be run on AppEngine. [1] Technically you can make Solr run by using a AppEngine port of Lucene and a lot of hacking of the Solr code, but it doesn't work well.
        • ericd 15y ago
          Yeah, I just didn't figure that GAE's limitations would hold him back on a cool idea, so I was wondering if this made cool things much, much easier. The alternative explanation would be that he uses GAE to the exclusion of all else nowadays.
          • joshu 15y ago
            I meant for pet projects is all. I spend too much on VMs otherwise.
        • fizx 15y ago
          Websolr has an AWS US-West region that is close enough to be practical for GAE.
• salimmadjd 15y ago
  If you are building anything serious, I would avoid GAE! Since their price hike (5-10X) in November you'll be paying 5-10X for the same performance on AWS and even more if you get a good deal on your own dedicated servers.