Comments on: Google App Engine suffers outages

Vaunted facility for hosting Web applications has been experiencing problems. The company is "working hard" to track down the source and fix it.

[someguy999]

I wrote some rather unpopular comments about the value of relying on an external in-the-cloud engine for business needs in app engine came out. This along with amazon just continues to prove my point.

[rcrusoe]

Guess they should have started with in "preview release" mode first to work out the bugs. Oh wait, they did!

[friky00]

Yesterday I've published an article on how to use Google App Engine as a free CDN and we're suffering outages since then.

:(

http://www.ipsojobs.com/blog/2008/06/17/how-to-create-a-simple-but-powerful-cdn-with-google-app-engine-gae/

[tomnyc2000]

Considering the service is in alpha, the cost, and the ease of use I'd say it's going to be around for a while. Working with a friend of mine we put together http://www.modpoll.com, www.modpoll.com in a few weeks after going to the Google Hack-A-Thon in NYC.