I recently had to realize a project on Google AppEngine. At the beginning I was sceptic. But there a some really nice approaches on Appengine:
- No server setup. Everything works out of the box. Gzip, libraries, etc.
- One-Click-Deployment. Fire up GAE Launcher on the Mac and click DEPLOY. Done.
- Low costs
- Easy in-production-logging
But there are some things I don't like if I'm thinking about professional projects
- The blobstore. It's just... weird. And non-backupable
- All the 1 MB restrictions
- The feeling that your code will only run on AppEngine. (BigTable)
Do you know any similar alternatives to AppEngine? And I don't mean services like EC2.