Some Best Practices for Apps For Domains with GAE [Was Apps For Domains is a MAJOR failing of AppEngine]
Brandon Wirtz
This started as a Response to Vlad, and then I decided to make it more of a 10 things to know about Apps For Domains, and I ended up with 11.
I’m not a Googler, but I can guess, that on average Apps For Domains makes more money for Goog, than GAE does. If Google can get you to sign up for email on 20 users, that adds up to a lot of money, and the tracking cookies on those users on adsense pages adds up to even more. More data is more money.
Apps For Domains wasn’t horrible until recently, the interface keeps getting more GoDaddy like. Which may be Familiar to those of use with lots of domains, but is a very bad thing. I also don’t think Apps For Domains likes GAE users. You can almost hear the Tech support people in that group moan when they hear you have an issue with GAE. (at one point my subdomains all disappeared and wouldn’t let me redeploy them because they were in use and Apps for Domains told me it was a Code Problem)
If you are setting up Apps for domain, I have over the last month or so decided that you should follow some simple rules…
1. Don’t set the admin account to a user account you use for anything else. This makes the email notifications harder to see, but will save you unified login headaches over, and over.
2. Pony up the $10 for a paid account. This sucks, especially for test domains, but you don’t get support otherwise. Sometimes you don’t get support even if you paid, but being able to at least call someone will make your life less of a Pain when something goes wrong.
3. Validate your domain using the DNS TXT entry not the HTML upload. If your HTML file becomes unreachable you may suddenly be unable to connect.
4. While you can have multiple domains with one account, as the primary if you ever sell that domain you can’t un-associate it, which is a PITA (More for the buyer than the seller) so don’t do this.
5. Don’t enable “Multiple Logins” on your Google Logins for any of your Apps For Domains admin accounts. While this seems to be well tested for GMAIL and Adsense, sometimes sessions get messed up and you will find that you are making changes to the wrong account.
6. Use Incognito Windows when administrating your Apps For Domains Accounts. Similar to above sessions don’t seem to work write in Apps For domain.
7. Don’t Administer accounts in IE9 or FireFox. Google seems to test only against Chrome, and some of the Dynamic elements on the page don’t always line up in IE9 and FireFox.
8. Don’t even login to Apps For Domains via a Mobile Device or Android Tablet. It seems the Pre-Caching on these is a little over-zealous and will often select all the options on some pages. (Awesome Sauce let me tell you)
9. Don’t use Root, Or Admin for the administrative Email User Name
10. Don’t Use the same Password across all your Apps For domains accounts.
11. Login to your account altleast once a month, the TOS and deployed apps change and sometimes if you miss a change things will just happen without your knowledge.
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from my google apps domain. I had multiple old M/S apps that google
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On Sep 20, 6:25 pm, "Brandon Wirtz" <drak...@digerat.com> wrote:
> This started as a Response to Vlad, and then I decided to make it more of a
> 10 things to know about Apps For Domains, and I ended up with 11.
>
> I'm not a Googler, but I can guess, that on average Apps For Domains makes
> more money for Goog, than GAE does. If Google can get you to sign up for
> email on 20 users, that adds up to a lot of money, and the tracking cookies
> on those users on adsense pages adds up to even more. More data is more
> money.
>
> Apps For Domains wasn't horrible until recently, the interface keeps getting
> more GoDaddy like. Which may be Familiar to those of use with lots of
> domains, but is a very bad thing. I also don't think Apps For Domains likes
> GAE users. You can almost hear the Tech support people in that group moan
> when they hear you have an issue with GAE. (at one point my subdomains all
> disappeared and wouldn't let me redeploy them because they were in use and
> Apps for Domains told me it was a Code Problem)
>
> If you are setting up Apps for domain, I have over the last month or so
>
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Simon Knott
Alexander Konovalenko
> 9. Don’t use Root, Or Admin for the administrative Email User Name
Why?
Brandon Wirtz
Alexander Konovalenko
> For the same reason you don't use Root or Admin for your Root and Admin
> accounts on any other server. If a hacker already knows the Username they
> don't have to guess nearly as many things.
Ah, security through obscurity. Yes, sometimes it can help.