For a particular class of applications, I think App Engine is probably ideal. It gives cheap hosting, great reliability and access to some Google’s storage stuff.
For example, if you have something that presents a read-only view onto a large bunch of data, App Engine would be very appropriate. Okay, you have to do data extraction from multiple models manually, since there’s no joining, but that’s not too hard to work around and people will write little helper functions for those cases. Remember that a lot of very successful, very popular websites are basically read-only: a lot of newspaper sites, things like EveryBlock (and, formerly, Chicago Crime) — all those sorts of sites. Even news.google.com.
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Posted by Tim at May 14, 2008 05:58 PM
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