Hi,I have a website project that would need the use of a good - yet affordable - CDN. My project is about storing, viewing and sharing videos. My needs are the following:- multi TB of data storage (in the long run as content is uploaded by users)- Analytics- API (manipulate the site library, upload, etc... and access to analytics)I did a quick search and found Limelight Network that covers all...
I have the same problem with UI. I am more of a technical person but would like to get better at design and layout. When I visit some of HN members' web sites I am always amazed at the way they look: clean and polished. I just wish I could do that kind of stuff! I will take the Udacity MOOC for a start. Thanks to other members for their suggestions on this thread.
While of course not accounting for 100% of his success, I think his strategy was simply brilliant.
I guess I have to decide whether I am ready to pay a monthly fee on Heroku during bootstrap time as opposed to basically nothing on app engine. You said you were familiar with app engine, globally are you satisfied with the platform? I will use Python, whether on app engine or Heroku.
I know I would get to beta 1 or a prototype faster on app engine but I did not know the limitations you mention would cause such headaches. I thought we had more room.
What I like of app engine is the search service but I think it could become costly - there is no price right now but the api call limits seem rather low. And I see that you can do full text search in Postgres at no additional cost than the monthly database plan.
Hi,I am currently considering two options as a back-end to a CRUD type mobile application: App Engine and Heroku. While it is fairly easy to calculate the costs of the Heroku option, I do not have experience with App Engine so I don't really know what to expect if I get a decent number of hits per day. App Engine looks like the easiest option technically but is this worth having your data and...