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Re:Ask HN: Google App Engine or Heroku for my first Android ... by MrMeker on Wednesday September 11, 2013 @01:53AM (#6365765)
I would recommend GAE. It is a pretty good fit for what you are describing, and best of all, it has a very reasonable free tier that never expires.

I have only ever used python on GAE. PHP at the moment only accepts whitelisted applications.

Their database is NoSQL, but it does have a query language called GQL which shares some features and syntax of SQL.https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/python/datastor...

GAE has cron jobs which can run for up to 10 minutes. https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/python/config/c...

Applications are limited to 1GB of source files. It seems like this will be no problem for you.

You are limited to 1GB of data/day for free, $0.12/GB after. For you application, that's 100,000 requests/day.

It looks like Heroku wants to charge if you want more than 10,000 database entries.

Your English is great.

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