I also love GAE. ITS FREE, for sizeable usage (if you profile your DB). It does push and pull via channel API. SSH configuration is easy as it gets. I have not

I also love GAE. ITS FREE, for sizeable usage (if you profile your DB). It does push and pull via channel API. SSH configuration is easy as it gets. I have not really had a problem with speed. I have a game on it that does 400ms client -> sever -> client.(authentication done in parallel thread) You can put Django on it. ITS FREE!