Hacker News Reader

> Third, App Engine doesn't have an SLA. That's a harsh sell for enterprise stuff.

How many SLAs actually pay for the incurred loss? Sure, a month of free hosting is nice, but does it really make up for the loss of a day?

> It doesn't even have a way to make a backup of the database in a dump file. That makes it an absolute no-go.

Why does the backup format matter?

View on HN

The format doesn't matter. The fact that there is no backup mechanism matters. App Engine does have some built-in redundancy, but as we've seen in some high-profile incidents, backups are a necessity. App Engine provides no facility to create backups.

We are working on database export, it's on the roadmap:

http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/roadmap.html

-- @mdrcode / App Engine PM

Reply on news.ycombinator.com