kljensen

This is the former.

Clearly GAE does not "suck". We've used it a lot, e.g. [1]. The principal advantages are:

- No sys admin. You can just focus on your app.

- The datastore (BigTable) is slick. Write and read times are independent of how much shizzle you stick in there.

- They're constantly making it better. E.g. the free quotas got more generous after a few months; and the new built in cron and off-line processing (taskqueue) support enables more complex apps.

Clearly not for everybody. We love it. Does not suck.

[1] http://news.priorsmart.com/

also, mad css-sprites...

not only s3, but googlepages for the images...and nearlyfreespeech for the hosting. all content is compressed and weighs in at <200k, w/ 10-yr maxage headers for the y-slow fr3aks.