

GOOGLE APP ENGINE SDK PYTHON INSTALL
Go to this Google App Engine download page, scroll down, and click "Download and install the original App Engine SDK for PHP." to download the older SDK. However, there was enough complaint about it that they made original SDK available again. Questions usually make me learn something new! Step 0: Download the App Engine SDKĭownload the SDK (and administration program) from the App Engine download page.Įdit December 18, 2017: Google replaced the original App Engine SDK with a more complicated toolset, which is some pain to get up to speed with for simple sites. Please feel free to post comments with questions. The entirety is still MUCH cheaper than spinning up a Rackspace cloud server ourselves and running lighttpd or apache.įinding simple directions to host static pages on the Google AppĮngine was difficult, so this is my contribution of We do pay for some other dynamic site projects as well as Google Cloud Storage to host our larger software downloads, at rates comparable to Rackspace Cloud Files. To this day our static site costs have been free.

Infrastructure will scale to handle the load. Spikes in traffic (which should be cause for celebration), our

I can rest easy at night knowing that if we have Website was very open to (extremely lame) DoS attacks.Īfter the move, our website is cheaper to run, and Poorly: during those bursty times, we would have poor latency, and our Virtual server on Rackspace to host the website seemed wasteful (ofĪdministration time and money.) Our virtual server was also performing Is static and our traffic is moderate but bursty, so running our own I'm happy to maintain this guide if people find it helpful!Īt the beginning of 2015, I moved all of the Update March 30, 2020: Are you interested in seeing this post updated for a Python 3 App Engine envrionment? Let us know in the comments! I have been migrating my mostly-static websites from PHP or Python 2 app engine projects to Python 3.
