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I run two profitable businesses on app engine. The occasional downtime is a tolerable exchange for the numerous benefits. (I also use ec2 for computationally expensive jobs. The ec2 instances are started and stopped by gae.)

Bottom line for me is this: on gae one dude, sans team, can be dangerous.

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Interesting perspective. I'm a "one dude" on EC2 and geeze I feel dangerous at times.... I haven't had any spectacular failures, but I've certainly had some close calls.

I'd love to hear more about how you've leveraged GAE.

Sure, my email is in my profile. The lack of sysadmin is key for me. I focus on the app with gae, not updating BLANK.

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