Monday, January 5, 2009
CDN on the cheap? Google AppEngine
Monday, January 5, 2009 
I have been playing with Google's App Engine for about 45 minutes and I have a scheme that allows me to update a local folder, hit deploy, and my files are served up to a google URL, awaiting visits on their servers.
Super fast, and I can either use their URLs or simply have the "real" site PHP pages reference the assets (css, images, javascripts, swfs) that are sitting on google's servers.
By no means whatsoever do I have traffic anywhere close to necessitating a CDN solution for my next version of this site. I am merely playing with it, and it seems to be working pretty well.
- Are there those of you out there using App Engine to do something similar, are there any pitfalls one should be aware of?
- It seems like it would be a pain to deploy assets to App Engine and then change web source to point to those deployed assets (although the speed gains would be there). Might save a little on possible transfer costs (again, only for more visited sites than this one). Waste of time?
- Amazon S3 seems pretty cool, but you pay a little (micropayments)... free always seems better, especially when the technology is more for playing with the idea than actually needing it.
- Just be happy I have it working, and now back to regularly scheduled programming?
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