Comments on: Google's App Engine Is Sputtering

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By: Tech Interrupted: Lessons From T-Mo and Rackspace

Tech Interrupted: Lessons From T-Mo and Rackspace — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:38:15 +0000

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By: What Happened in Cloud Computing in Q2? | Tech Daily

What Happened in Cloud Computing in Q2? | Tech Daily — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 01:12:53 +0000

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By: Rethinking The Cloud: From Client/Server To P2P | CloudAve

Rethinking The Cloud: From Client/Server To P2P | CloudAve — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 08:38:23 +0000

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By: google fan boy

google fan boy — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 21:31:16 +0000

muselius- you say its a ‘it is a preview release’… App Engine has been out of preview for over a year. Since February, they have been charging for the GAE service if you exceed your quotas, which should be reliable enough for a ‘serious project’ if a guy has to pay for it.

A six hour downtime is inexcusable, and shows they lack the resources to diagnose and restore the service in a timely manner. The level of communication of the problem is poor as well. Obviously they aren’t prepared to let people know they made a mistake since they aren’t divulging exactly what went wrong.

We have been kicking the tires on GAE, and with this outage and the way Google handled it is bad business. Right now, I don’t see any benefits to using the service. Amazon Web Services gives you the best flexibility with scaling up, down and out. Plus you aren’t limited to any single platform.

Lets be honest… Google is good at one thing… Selling Ads.

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Los peligros de la nube del hosting, Carrero — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 05:57:54 +0000

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By: muselius

muselius — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:46:00 +0000

We use appengine as our hosting platform and we were affected by the downtime. I think all these problems will finish soon, it is a preview release, don’t forget that “detail”, it is not supposed to be reliable enough for a serious project!

By: Saasmanario - Semana 27/2009 | Saasmania

Saasmanario - Semana 27/2009 | Saasmania — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 20:04:47 +0000

[...] semana dos outage.- Mala semana para las nubes públicas de RackSpace y Google App Engine, ambas sufrieron caídas que afectaron a bastantes [...]

By: Mishan Aburted

Mishan Aburted — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:29:05 +0000

Google Arrogance(tm) is their most important product, and the nature of Google’s business may make them peculiarly tone deaf in dealing with end-users.

The lock-in problem with AppEngine seems like the biggest red flag.