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It looks like they have preemptively documented how to install Wordpress: https://developers.google.com/appengine/articles/wordpress

I wonder how the performance is -- will they support common cache plugins? If not, I wonder if stock wordpress on GAE will be able to withstand getting frontpage'd on HN/Reddit

Edit: Unfortunately, as there is no CloudSQL free tier, there's no way to test it out without paying a small amount.

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AJ here, a PM on App Engine (and the guy who wrote the tutorial). The Batcache plugin (which caches to Memcache) works on GAE out of the box, and gives a predictable improvement to performance, especially when you've got a lot of DB-heavy plugins.

As Cloud SQL will provide it's own security features

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Thanks, will fix :)

That's a nice tutorial and the idea of running Wordpress on GAE is intriguing to say the least.

I apologize that I have not closely familiarized myself with Google Cloud SQL. Is it really API compatible with MySQL, or are there limitation that one is bound to run into when one starts adding plugins etc.?

I also don't quite understand (not having tried it out yet, obviously) how you'll handle static files (images, etc.) uploaded via the Wordpress "media" feature. Is GAE able to support that?

Anyhow, congratulations on the launch. I'm not a huge fan of PHP myself but I frequently find myself having to use it (e.g. to host a Wordpress site!) so this is really an interesting avenue for me to explore.

Google Cloud storage is a great place for uploaded media (it's pretty efficient at serving), and the PHP runtime integrates quite cleanly into GCS (you can fwrite() to a GCS object, for example).

https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/php/googlestora...

We're working with a couple of Wordpress developers on a plugin to integrate Wordpress media uploads with Google Cloud Storage.

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