Hi Kyle, GAE is a global service. Terms like "in the middle of the day" are quite dependent on where you are on the globe.
That being said, if Google is using distributed data centers around the globe (if think they should as AWS), they should consider scheduling they down-times in such a way that outage is only limited to certain data centers. Las 2011/4/7 Kyle Mulka <[email protected]> > Dear App Engine Team, > > No web application platform should have hour-long scheduled downtime > periods in the middle of the day. Why does Google App Engine have > these, and when will this no longer happen? And, while one response > might be to switch to the high replication datastore, this should > technically be possible to fix without sacrificing consistency. > > One fix that I would be satisfied with is to schedule the downtime in > the middle of the night. Give me the option of when downtime can > occur. If you need some inspiration, you could look over at that other > cloud provider I'm considering switching to. > http://aws.amazon.com/rds/faqs/#12 > > The downtime also wouldn't be as bad if it were only for a couple > minutes. > > The other thing I want to point out is that scheduled downtime is > different than unplanned downtime. Unplanned downtime is something you > can't control, but it just frustrates me that you plan downtime in the > middle of the day. This is the biggest reason for why I'm considering > switching away from Google App Engine. > > Looking forward to hearing from the App Engine team. > > Thanks, > > -- > Kyle Mulka > Co-Founder, DealSavant > http://www.dealsavant.com > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
