[Tilecache] Anyone try running TileCache on Google App Engine?

[Alper Dinçer]

Hi,

I have been using Google App Engine (GAE) as a tile storage for 2 months. As
it is mentioned above, I store tiles in BLOBs. Since it is a demo service
for our applications, 500 Mb is enough for this beta period. First
impression of GAE is good for serving, but uploading tiles and managing DB
(bigtable) is a big problem.

Alper.

On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 2:36 AM, chris marx <chrismarx at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yes,
>  I imagined that it would just be a front end, with the tiles on S3 or even
> on one of my own servers. I'd also need to be able to hit my wms server, but
> thats a normal web service on a standard port, so shouldn't that be
> possible? I like the idea of EC2, although thats not free. So, theoretically
> it could work?
> chris-
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 7:16 PM, Josh Livni <josh at umbrellaconsulting.com>wrote:
>
>> I think the issue is that while you might get a nice # of hits per day,
>> the max disk space is quite small (500mb) ... and you have no access to disk
>> anyway, so you'd basically be just using it as a frontend to point to
>> somewhere else where the actual tiles are... if that location is usually
>> somewhere like S3 then you might as well use ec2 instead.
>>
>> Perhaps for a small amt of tiles you could write a storage where it saves
>> them as blobs with a key in the appengine datastore, but I doubt most would
>> find the effort worth it.
>>
>>   -Josh
>>
>>  On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 4:02 PM, chris marx <chrismarx at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>  Seems like a good fit, a nice home for a python application.. Anyone
>>> tried it? Thoughts?
>>>
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>
>
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