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Comment on Ask HN: Why does Reddit.com always complain about resources: Why not use GAE?

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Google Appengine has a lot of limitations and is still sees frequent downtime. GAE is simply not a viable solution for a site with Reddit's traffic at this time.

Actually, the bulk of those limitations are a thing of the past:

http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2010/12/happy-holidays-f...

"Google Appengine has a lot of limitations"

Well, that is kind of exactly what this question is asking, right?

"and is still sees frequent downtime."

Ok, so downtime is a valid reason.

"GAE is simply not a viable solution for a site with reddit's traffic at this time."

Again, not sure if I can learn anything from this sentence.

This was on the front page of HN a couple weeks ago and can answer better than me: http://www.carlosble.com/?p=719

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