App Engine the right place for me?

[Richard Bernstein]

I have my app up and running on a small shared hosting site in the midwest. It is not released yet.  I now want to move it over to App Engine.  The main reason is that it is a data intensive application and I want to use the google cloud data facilities. When I uploaded it (and the help system) to the small hoster in the midwest, they let me use Filezilla to FTP my app up there. And they used cPanel so I could set up my needs. Does App engine have something analagous? 

[Joshua Fox]

When I uploaded it (and the help system) to the small hoster in the midwest, they let me use Filezilla to FTP my app up there. And they used cPanel so I could set up my needs. 

 AppEngine is much more complex and richer in functionality than  cPanel-style. It is not at all similar as such things go. So, if you prefer continuing to leverage your familiarity with  cPanel-style, GAE is not it.

On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 2:02 AM, Richard Bernstein <rich...@gmail.com> wrote:

I have my app up and running on a small shared hosting site in the midwest. It is not released yet.  I now want to move it over to App Engine.  The main reason is that it is a data intensive application and I want to use the google cloud data facilities. When I uploaded it (and the help system) to the small hoster in the midwest, they let me use Filezilla to FTP my app up there. And they used cPanel so I could set up my needs. Does App engine have something analagous? 

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[Richard Bernstein]

Josh, thanks for the info. Now it makes more sense. My software need to be battle hardened and have access to large amounts of data storage. And since it is not yet released, it makes sense to investigate GC now before I have trouble changing it. Thanks again. 

Rich

[Katayoon (Cloud Platform Support)]

Hi,

App Engine provides you with a rich scalable development environment along with multiple options for storing data. Furthermore Google Cloud Platform offers a full suite of storage services to meet your needs for structured, unstructured, transactional, and relational data.

You may try Google Cloud Platform free tier to get a good grasp of using App Engine and

contact Google Cloud Platform sales team and discuss your project with them.

If you have a Premium support package, the architecture advisory service is available for you as well.

On Monday, May 14, 2018 at 7:12:31 PM UTC-4, Richard Bernstein wrote:

[Richard Bernstein]

Thanks Katayoon. I have actually had the free tier for a while (it is almost expiring!) but honestly I was so busy building the app I really didn't think too much about the hosting. Now that the app is done (is it ever really done?) I am thinking about more practical issues such as data storage. I will be storing timesheet data for a number of commercial users. I know if I loose their data, my app is sunk. I just need to figure out what I need to change in my app to get it to run on GC, now that I know it runs fine on a less appropriate server. My app uses mySQL. Does GC allow me access to a mySQL server? 

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[Katayoon (Cloud Platform Support)]

Regarding your concerns about keeping your data reliable, here, you may take a look at Google Cloud SQL SLA which says the Covered Service (including Cloud SQL) will provide a Monthly Uptime Percentage to Customer of at least 99.95%. Furthermore, you can configure a Second Generation Cloud SQL For MySQL instance for high availability by following this guideline.

For any supported language of your interest, you may follow the respective quickstart to get familiar with how to create a small App Engine application.

For your last question, I should note that you can connect to your on premises databases which exist outside Google Cloud from App Engine as well.