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Re:The Google App Engine Hoax by irrelative on Monday March 02, 2009 @11:08AM (#500212)
Even for dynamic content, VPS can push through stuff. I can hit a page that's generated dynamically at about 170 requests per second. On my $30 a month VPS. For a page requiring database access, I can run about 40 per second... with the DB running on the same VPS.

Frankly, this is pretty embarrassing for google.

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Re:The Google App Engine Hoax by timf on Monday March 02, 2009 @11:14AM (#500226)
But you can ask for more and you'll get it. Is it embarrassing for EC2 that their initial cap is at 20 nodes?
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Re:The Google App Engine Hoax by irrelative on Monday March 02, 2009 @11:25AM (#500240)
Since their goal is to have as many resources as you need, then yes I think it is.
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Re:The Google App Engine Hoax by timf on Monday March 02, 2009 @11:45AM (#500268)
I don't remember seeing "infinite" in any marketing material. I'm not trying to be snarky... I think both Google and Amazon are upfront about this.
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