# Gavin Andresen
# 2010-06-12 11:51:33
# https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=186.msg1519#msg1519

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App Engine gives me: @p{brk}
 Free bandwidth and data storage (with the option to pay for what I use if I go over a gigabyte) @p{brk}
 Built-in, already-configured-and-tweaked tools like memcache and BigTable @p{brk}
 An architecture where scaling up is built-in (App Engine will automagically replicate my app and distribute it across Google's worldwide content distribution network if it gets a lot of traffic) @p{par}

And all of that is administered by Google's sysadmins (who are WAY better at that than I am). @p{par}

But mostly I did it as an experiment and because it was a technical challenge and because lately I'm an App Engine fanboy.  I would've been done a day earlier if I'd run everything on the same server and wrote the front end in PHP+MySQL. @p{brk}