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Are there commerical companies using google appengine? is it stable for production?

+6  A: 

http://code.google.com/appengine/casestudies.html

house9
Google itself also uses app engine. There's a talk at the upcoming Google IO about how they use it: http://code.google.com/events/io/2010/sessions/run-corp-apps-on-app-engine.html
David Underhill
A: 

It seems stable enough for production, the real question is whether or not you are ok with giving up control of your hosting environment.

My Concerns:

  • You can't take a google appenginge program to anyone else (microsoft, amazon, etc).
  • If it goes down, you can't do anything but wait. Can't take it to a backup host/provider, can't do anything about it yourself.

That said, google is a pretty big/stable company. For a utility or proof of concept, I'd have no problem with it. For the main product my company creates/sells, I'd never use it.

Alan Jackson
You could use AppScale on EC2 to move it off - but you have to replace the datastore with your own database. See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2577683/how-to-move-a-google-application-engine-based-website-to-amazon-platform
dar
+1  A: 

I'd be more worried about whether the app engine suits your requirements. It has a reputation for being slow, with limited memory, and a little quirky. It does exactly what google needs it to do (handle massive scaling for applications that can tolerate some small faults), but it may not suit your needs.

wisty