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Except there is no way to inject funds to the idea. There's no way to pay Google for more cpu/bandwidth/storage. The system is also very propriety and there is

Except there is no way to inject funds to the idea. There's no way to pay Google for more cpu/bandwidth/storage. The system is also very propriety and there is no (easy) way move an appengine app to a new server. I'd much rather get some cheap hosting somewhere else than develop for free on appengine. Its an interesting platform but there are still too many limitations for me to consider it for serious use.

bootload 18y ago
"... There's no way to pay Google for more cpu/bandwidth/storage. ..." Agreed, this will change in time. But I'd use this point to refine the idea as you suggest on cheap hosting. "... The system is also very propriety and there is no (easy) way move an appengine app to a new server. ..." Not convinced of that. The biggest problem is not the porting of an idea but replicating the scaling.
justindz 18y ago
One thing I enjoy about Heroku is the option to export code and run a local Rails + Postgres instance if the need comes to fruition. The "escape hatch" is good for any system in which you intend to invest resources, even if you never need to escape. I think AppEngine is a little bit more proprietary, although with some work you could probably move to Python, Django, CouchDB or something similar in an emergency.