Re:App Engine charges $6,500 to update a ListProperty on 14....
by roel_v on Friday January 06, 2012 @03:57AM
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Not to be an asshole, I'm genuinely curious: what about that site makes it impossible to run on a 10$/month vps with plenty of capacity to spare for running mail and 5 other sites of the same complexity? From the dates on the posts it doesn't seem like you get much traffic.
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Re:App Engine charges $6,500 to update a ListProperty on 14....
by endlessvoid94 on Friday January 06, 2012 @11:11AM
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Nothing is impossible about it. It just takes time. It also means downtime, which I suppose is unavoidable at this point.
Honestly it has more to do with how much time I want to spend on the site, how much it returns, and whether or not I should spend my nights and weekends transferring it to another host.
The last time I backed up all the data from GAE it took 4 days to download all of it to a VPS. 4 days to download all of it. Migrating means 4 days of downtime, or alternatively some complex solution involving posting all new data to BOTH places while the migration takes place.
That takes time and energy, and quite frankly I'd rather see someone with the resources do it right instead of trying to hack it.