Google App Engine is a cloud computing technology for hosting web applications in Google-managed data centers. Google App Engine lets you run your web applications on Google's infrastructure; applications are easy to build, easy to maintain, and easy to scale as your traffic and data storage needs ...
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Google App Engine and SSL Payment Page
I have an app hosted on Google App Engine and I need to have a payment page that uses SSL. GAE only allows you to use SSL on their appspot domain but I want to keep it on my custom domain. Is it ...
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Identifying Google company resources versus App Engine resources
We are experiencing a problem with scraping on our e-commerce platform.
It's not the scraping that is the problem per se, it's that whoever is doing it is spoofing a stale referrer full of our ...
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How to use AppScale
There are some wiki which explain how to install and setup AppScale.
But I didn't find anything related to the extensive use of AppScale. I mean, what to do in case of major outage ?
If the node ...
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Amazon EC2 as Google App Engine proxy
I want to run a micro instance on EC2 that will serve as a proxy server for my GAE app. I found this article on how to run it on ami-ad7e2ee8:
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EC2 or GAE for python/django app [closed]
I am currently deciding whether to use EC2 or GAE for my django app. I've done some research on both. In terms of deploying a database-driven django app with the following:
-- high on db reads / ...
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GAE dev server behind Apache proxy sometimes slow
As the Google App Engine development server only serves one file at a time, I decided to have static resources served instead by: Apache 2.2.17 / XAMPP 1.7.4 / WinXP32. Requests for dynamically ...
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app engine custom domain not working
I'm using Google App Engine with Google Apps. I can access my site through http://mydomain.appspot.com. I've been setting it up with a custom domain using http://aralbalkan.com/1466
I registered my ...
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Nginx as reverse proxy for Google App Engine application
I want to use nginx as a reverse proxy for Google App Engine application to support naked domain as described here. If I use this scheme, will all the traffic go through the server that hosts nginx or ...
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Does Google Apps support multiple Google App Engine apps?
I have two Google App Engine applications, foo-app and spam-app. I want to associate them with the domains foo.name.com and spam.name.com. When I go to add foo-app to foo.name.com, it works as ...
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Send email through local SMTP vs google app engine
My web site is supposed to send email to customers and its hosted on a VPS. Should I use local SMTP or is it better to use a third party SMTP provider like Google App Engine?
What are the ...
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Setup Amazon EC2 instance to forward Appengine urlfetch requests
I currently have an appengine app and need to make calls to an API that requires IP whitelisting. I can't whitelist the entire appengine IP blocks (as outlined here) because the range is too big.
So ...
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dynamic DNS wildcard
You can set the DNS record like mod_rewrite in Apache? Where?
anything.myapp.com > redirect to > myapp.appspot.com/anything
dynamically, hundreds of thousands of accounts...
Or do I ...
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calling a different python interpreter from bash command line
I have python 2.7 installed
[user@localhost google_appengine]$ python
Python 2.7 (r27:82500, Sep 16 2010, 18:03:06)
[GCC 4.5.1 20100907 (Red Hat 4.5.1-3)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", ...
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Using multiple PaaS Vendors
I am developing a SaaS App, and I want to decide for a PaaS Vendor. Since one of my biggest concerns is uptime, is there an application or service, that allows me to use several PaaS Vendors (like ...
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Mount Google AppEngine as Windows Drive
The plan is to use Google AppEngine as closed cloud datastore, not for content delivery, for our cloud based Windows Server 2003 machines.
How could Google AppEngine be mounted as a drive with a ...
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Getting started with a blacklist
I blacklisted "213.5.64.179" and wonder if you can recommend how to proceed?
Should I do this on an ad-hoc basis just following the instructions and blacklist bad hosts as we go along or take ...
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Forward my domain and hide the original
I have registered a domain with godaddy. This points to a sub domain on app spot (google app engine).
When i visit my domain I see the blah.appspot.com rather than mydomain.com
Can I hide the app ...
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Map, Point or Redirect mail.domain.com to Google App Engine Email
What is the best way to map mail.mydomain.com to https://www.google.com/a/mydomain?
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Sending emails from PHP - email providers vs GAE
I need to send emails from my social service (this is continuation of Experiences in mailing to registered users). I got strong feeling that it's better to avoid problems with email server ...
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Custom Domain Name - Server not found Google App Engine and Google Apps
I have integrated my domain at Google Apps with Google App Engine. I added www.myDomain.com to google app,it was working correctly and pointing to my application at appEngine, but now it doesn't ...
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What's the cheapest way to host hobby projects?
What's the best place to put your hobby web projects(the web app itself, not the code) ? Typically, the projects are such that:
a) I just want to test out an interesting idea without exploring the ...
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Running local gae server in port 80
I have an ubuntu 10.4 installation with apache2 running by default in port 80. I want gae to respond to that address instead of apache. I have changed the conf files for apache in order to use another ...
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multiple google app engine domains (even if not owned by me)
I promise I have been searching... but I haven't been unable to find
the correct answer. Thus I turn to you fine folks.
So lets say I have my super fancy new killer app-engine app:
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geting a good url for my website host [closed]
I would like to use google app engine for my website.Now i guess appengine provides ulr like xyz.appengine.com.Now i want some good url for my wbesite.How do i do it?
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Subdomain is preventing my search results from rising as expected in page rank
My problem is that I have a site which has requires a dedicated page for every city I choose to support. Early on, I decided to use subdomains rather than a directly after my domain (ie i used ...
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Massive Crawling requests from Google Apps Engine useragent
I'm badly affected with 'Google AppEngine-Google' UserAgent.. receiving 5/6 requests per second on http server. This bot is crawling my site just like GoogleBot does.
Following is the sample of url ...
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Does Cloud Computing COST a premium? (or is it competitive with shared/managed/co-location)
Since cloud solutions (Google AppEngine, Amazon, etc.) do more for you, at the end of the day do they cost significantly more than doing it "yourself" with co-location hosting, etc.
Not just ...
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Have Free website Hosting with Google App Engine
I'm reading about Google App Engine.
I'm creating a bunch of simple dynamic websites in java.
I'm considering to use Google App Engine and setup my clients' website on it.
In this way I've only to ...
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Using Google's App Engine as CDN for static files
I am planning on moving my static files to Google's App Engine. I was wondering if this is a good idea to do.
I have read that is it possible that Google will cache your files on multiple locations, ...
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Port forwarding and machine access
I have an application running in local google app engine and I am trying to expose it over the internet for some testing. I have successfully set up port forwarding in my router. Used this tool ...
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Using Google App Engine for static files
I want to serve the static data for my website from Google App Engine.
How do I configure GAE to serve static content?
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Why cname appengine app always redirect to www.google.com?
I have a appengine app and google app account.
I have CNAME the domain name to the appengine app successful two months ago.
I find that CNAME fail to direct to the appengine app now, but the ...
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Google App Engine | domain name mapping | Go Daddy domain name
Right now I have no ahost records set in Godaddy. I read something
that said I should set it to 64.202.189.170, but I think that's for the
case of domain name forwarding, NOT mapping, and that's not ...
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When should one use the following: Amazon EC2, Google App Engine, Microsoft Azure and Salesforce.com?
I had asked this question on StackOverflow. It was suggested to post it here too.
When should one use the following: Amazon EC2, Google App Engine, Microsoft Azure and Salesforce.com?
Please share ...
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How to recover If you lost administrator rights of Google Apps?
I tried of Google Apps Premier Edition, but I got rid of administrator rights of the administrative account by mistake and was not able to access Control Panel.
How to recover If you lost ...
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Google App Engine SDK is open source. Would anyone from the cloud try to catch it to break the vendor lockin?
Would it be possible/feasible/desirable that any "cloud" provider grab the source code of the Google App Engine SDK in order to break the "vendor lock in" it imposes?
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How big is a cloud? [closed]
I'm trying to come up with some data on how much computing power the current cloud platforms represent. (Microsoft Azure, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Google App Engine. Others?)
Stuff like how many ...
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joomla in Google appengine
I was wondering if I can transfer my existing site based on joomla! in Google appengine. How can I do that?
Will it be easy if I start from scratch (modifying joomla! for Google appengine).
Please ...
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Sign up for Google AppEngine without SMS?
I would like to use Google AppEngine, but it appears to require a cellphone to receive SMS for verification.
Is there any way around this, or any other option I can take?
