...few hundred thousand users... We should all have that problem! ------------------------ Keith Smith --- On Tue, 7/13/10, Joseph Sinclair wrote: From: Joseph Sinclair Subject: Re: App Engine? To: "Main PLUG discussion list" Date: Tuesday, July 13, 2010, 9:05 PM Apache and Tomcat are not even close to distributed computing environments. They're single-server environments, and neither is even particularly fast in that role. They are both well known and well supported, however. If your application is simple enough to run on a single server (no matter how many users, as long as there aren't too many at one time), then that type of solution is fine (and a lot easier to program). If your application's processing gets more complex as more users log in (relatively few applications do this), then no number of instances of a single-server-model web-server will handle the load, and you'll have to accept harder programming in order to scale beyond a few hundred thousand users. Bryan O'Neal wrote: > Every time I run the analysis your better off writing for a > distributable open source app engine, like Apache / Tomcat. And > horizontally spanning as required on commodity hosts, like go daddy. > > On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 7:00 PM, Doc Media wrote: >> Anyone had experience (good or bad) with Google's App Engine? �A friend >> of mine was looking to start a project, and we were discussing the finer >> points of a regular hosting company versus something like App Engine. >> Any insights would be helpful. >> >> - Scott -----Inline Attachment Follows----- --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss