On: Google App Engine vs. Amazon EC2

[spindritf]

Personal note: I found the GAE quotas don't even count the static requests (static HTML + CSS). So this site should never cost me anything.

And there are five free SNI slots, too, right? So... you can host a static site available over ssl completely for free on GAE?

[lehtu → spindritf]

Almost. SNI slots are free - Yes, but still you have to buy the SSL certificate from somewhere (cheapest are something like $8/year - https://www.ssls.com)

[jehna1 → lehtu]

And since SNI isn't legacy-compatible, Google itself recommends to "detect browsers that do not support SNI and recommend a browser that supports it"

https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/ssl#server_name...

[spindritf → lehtu]

If you can use any CA, you can get a free certificate from StartSSL https://startssl.com/

[Zaheer → spindritf]

Another note: You can host a static site on Heroku for free if you like as well. I have multiple on there.

[jehna1 → spindritf]

Practically yes. I probably should add the SSL also and make a post of it.