This very heavily depends on the application. Often migration involves just moving part of the app - I've done this with one popular mobile game, and partychapp had to do it as well.
It's worth the extra day (or whatever is needed) Jeff On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 4:00 PM, Kaan Soral <[email protected]> wrote: > IMHO If you ever need to move out of GAE, you are already in deep s*, so a > hardcoded mobile url would be a minor trouble compared to your existing > troubles. > > But great advice anyway. > > The only advantage of using *.appspot.com domain is: it has https, which is > a big plus sometimes. (For example Facebook apps) Setting up SSL for a > normal domain seems like a 1-2 day heavy job, considering GAE/Google Apps > doesn't help. > > > On Tuesday, March 12, 2013 6:19:19 PM UTC+2, Jeff Schnitzer wrote: >> >> As an additional bit of advice, you should *never* deploy a mobile app >> with a hardcoded link to *.appspot.com or any other hosting-specific >> domain. Buy your own domain and set up api.yourdomain.com. That way if >> you ever want to move off of GAE, you won't need to set up proxies or >> try to force-upgrade all your users. >> >> I've seen this mistake made sooo many times with appspot.com, >> herokuapp.com, etc... and the app owner is always kicking themselves >> later. >> >> Jeff >> >> On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 11:46 AM, Thanos Makris <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Thanks a lot for your prompt reply! I will check it and see what >> > happens. >> > >> > >> > On Tuesday, March 12, 2013 1:36:26 PM UTC+2, barryhunter wrote: >> >> >> >> Are you sure its redirected? That doesn't sound right. In fact I dont >> >> see >> >> how it can do, if it was redirected the hostname would go missing, and >> >> the >> >> hostname (containing the appname) is needed to route the request to >> >> your >> >> application (rather than the thousends of other apps runnong on >> >> appspot) >> >> >> >> There is a DNS CNAME, but its effectively an internal detail of how the >> >> DNS is routed. It's very common for sites to use CNAMEs to handle DNS - >> >> particully for routing requests via a CDN. It seems very odd that any >> >> whitelisting system would use an intermediate CNAME hostname for >> >> whitelisting. It should either use the original hostname (ie the >> >> hostname in >> >> the URL) or the final IP address. >> >> >> >> If the final IP you are out of luck, because Google uses many IPs for >> >> AppEngine. You need whitelisting on the original hostname. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 11:26 AM, Thanos Makris <[email protected]> >> >> wrote: >> >>> >> >>> Hi, >> >>> >> >>> We have developed an AppEngine application that serves as backend for >> >>> a >> >>> mobile application. We want to whitelist the URL of the application, >> >>> so the >> >>> mobile users would not be charged when using this application. >> >>> >> >>> However, we have the following issue. When the mobile application >> >>> "hits" >> >>> appname.appspot.com, the request is redirected to appspot.l.google.com >> >>> and >> >>> the response is sent from this URL. Thus, the users are charged for >> >>> the data >> >>> exchange. >> >>> >> >>> Is there any way to tackle this problem? >> >>> >> >>> Thanks a lot! >> >>> >> >>> -- >> >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> >>> Groups >> >>> "Google App Engine" group. >> >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >> >>> an >> >>> email to [email protected]. >> >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> >>> >> >>> Visit this group at >> >>> http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. >> >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >>> >> >>> >> >> >> >> >> > -- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> > Groups >> > "Google App Engine" group. >> > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >> > an >> > email to [email protected]. >> > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> > Visit this group at >> > http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. >> > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> > >> > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
