Have you seen the Google App Engine already, the guys from Google are crazy! You now can host your
application on the Google network, including Big Table and GFS!

Ok, one problem... they currently only support Python for programming, but the good news is that
they will add more languages like PHP in the future.

To get PHP as the next language that will be integrated on Google App Engine, please give your vote
at there Project page at code.google.com!!

http://code.google.com/p/googleappen...s/detail?id=13

Read and see more about Google App Engine:
- http://code.google.com/appengine/
- http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/

Regards,

Paul

On Thursday 10 April 2008 16:32, Paul van Brouwershaven wrote:
> Have you seen the Google App Engine already, the guys from Google are
> crazy! You now can host your application on the Google network, including
> Big Table and GFS!
>
> Ok, one problem... they currently only support Python for programming, but
> the good news is that they will add more languages like PHP in the future.
>
> To get PHP as the next language that will be integrated on Google App
> Engine, please give your vote at there Project page at code.google.com!!
>
> http://code.google.com/p/googleappen...s/detail?id=13
>
> Read and see more about Google App Engine:
> - http://code.google.com/appengine/
> - http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/
>
> Regards,
>
> Paul

Looks like they extending their services to web hosting. Wonder when they'll
offer VPS accounts?

Regards

Julian Kennedy schreef:
> Looks like they extending their services to web hosting. Wonder when they'll
> offer VPS accounts?

No they will not, you may upload your application. They have created a very nice system, but there
are some restrictions because of security Bigtable and GFS. But your application can scale without
investing in expensive servers and management. The only think you have to do is building your
software, Google wil run it on there enormously platform.

Paul van Brouwershaven wrote:
> Have you seen the Google App Engine already, the guys from Google are
> crazy! You now can host your application on the Google network,
> including Big Table and GFS!
>
> Ok, one problem... they currently only support Python for programming,
> but the good news is that they will add more languages like PHP in the
> future.
>
> To get PHP as the next language that will be integrated on Google App
> Engine, please give your vote at there Project page at code.google.com!!
>
> http://code.google.com/p/googleappen...s/detail?id=13
>
> Read and see more about Google App Engine:
> - http://code.google.com/appengine/
> - http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/
>
> Regards,
>
> Paul

Looks like there is a petition also: http://i-want-php.appspot.com

Sorry, I meant:

<?php

echo "
Looks
like
there
is
a
petition
also:
http://i-want-php.appspot.com";

?>

function sign_petition()
{
throw new Exception('I WANT PHP may use your email address to
personalize your experience on their website.');
}

try {
sign_petition();
} catch (Exception $e) {
echo 'No thank you: ', $e->getMessage(), "\n";
}

--

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Grampa: What?

Homer: We're both screw-ups.

Grampa vs. Sexual Inadequacy


On Thu, 2008-04-10 at 13:40 -0500, Shawn McKenzie wrote:
> Paul van Brouwershaven wrote:
> > Have you seen the Google App Engine already, the guys from Google are
> > crazy! You now can host your application on the Google network,
> > including Big Table and GFS!
> >
> > Ok, one problem... they currently only support Python for programming,
> > but the good news is that they will add more languages like PHP in the
> > future.
> >
> > To get PHP as the next language that will be integrated on Google App
> > Engine, please give your vote at there Project page at code.google.com!!
> >
> > http://code.google.com/p/googleappen...s/detail?id=13
> >
> > Read and see more about Google App Engine:
> > - http://code.google.com/appengine/
> > - http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Paul
>
> Looks like there is a petition also: http://i-want-php.appspot.com
>
> Sorry, I meant:
>
> <?php
>
> echo "
> Looks
> like
> there
> is
> a
> petition
> also:
> http://i-want-php.appspot.com";
>
> ?>
>
>

A co-worker and I were talking about this again today, and I stumbled
upon this crazy idea.

What if this is Google providing people it's own preferred hosting and
backend solutions in the hopes that people make some cool apps they
can easily just buy and not even have to convert to land in their own
environment? I mean, it has their integrated auth, their datastore and
their filesystem.

I'm not quite sure their interest is to support everyone's favorite
language (I could be wrong) but it could be a covert way to get people
to code apps that have very little overhead to bring in-house, since
technically it already is

Explained a little bit better here:
http://michaelshadle.com/2008/04/10/...ogle-3-profit/