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On the other hand, GAE looks like a great fit for a static site built with Jekyll, like a personal blog. In fact I'm planning to migrate my site over today. Almost any personal site will be free to host. Even though I would only be paying a few dollars with S3, I see no reason not to give app engine a shot.

One thing I worry about is the reported downtime. I'm not sure whether or not that will affect a static site.



Our company website (http://www.stochastictechnologies.com/) and my resume (http://resume.korokithakis.net/) runs on GAE, on one instance. However, the script has a sort of mod_rewrite, so it requires that you declare your URLs beforehand. If you'd like to check it out, see https://github.com/stochastic-technologies/static-appengine-....




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