On Feb 15, 2011, at 2:05 PM, James Hancock wrote: > I am starting a web app for my company soon, and I thought I would ask here > if you have any suggestions on whether to use the GAE or EC2 to as a server > platform. > > Any thoughts on the pros and cons? > > I thought it would be appropriate to ask because of the new things scheduled > to come out for the GAE.
GAE is still nominally a preview release (not sure if that's pre-beta or post-beta in Googlish). The compelling advantage of GAE for me is not having to administer a server; that counts for a lot in my book. Python 2.5 is tolerable, but both Python 2.7 and SQL are coming. I'd say: if your app fits GAE reasonably well, give it a shot. Especially with web2py, you won't lose much if you have to move elsewhere down the road.
