Just out of curiosity, how would you describe what you are currently doing? Can you elaborate on why it might not be a good fit?
I'm honestly just trying to learn from your experience, not disputing anything.
Sure - no problem - the application is Generic Domain Finder - just search it on Google. The current app in the search results is still running GAE.
The things I loved:
- tight integration with Google accounts
- easy integration with other Google apis (we used a few)
The frustrating thing was dealing with the black box. We used an api to get domain availability. Every time it returns more slowly than the equivalent call on our linux based cloud server.
With GAE, you're basically stuck with what you get. With a generic Linux based cloud server - you have more room to optimize your environment, or even take your code and run it anywhere... AWS, Rackspace, Voxel...
I still believe in what GAE is trying to do - and I'll definitely try it out again for future projects.
