: Cost of hosting on Google App Engine How does the cost of hosting on Google App Engine compare to hosting on more classical servers for a high traffic website? What's the answer for a website

@Dunderdale272

So it sounds like you're concerned that Google App Engine will work and scale for you, but you're going to get to a point where you exceed their capacity to host you without being costly. Is that right?

I think the thing to do here is to have an "exit strategy" for your App. I think you need this regardless of whether you exceed Google's limits or not. What if Google decides App Engine is a money loser? What if it stops supporting the APIs you want to use?

Check out AppScale, which is intended to be an open source version of Google App Engine for what might end up as your fallback should you outgrow GAE's limits.

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