Google on “preview-releasinud” (jah, ametlik väljend) tasuta platvormi veebi arendajatele.

“At tonight’s Campfire One we launched a preview release of Google App Engine — a developer tool that enables you to run your web applications on Google’s infrastructure. The goal is to make it easy to get started with a new web app, and then make it easy to scale when that app reaches the point where it’s receiving significant traffic and has millions of users.”

Sama pakett sisaldab ka tasuta hostingut, mis on küllaltki korralike näitajatega. Ja mis mulle isiklikult meeldis on see, et on ära toodud ka max CPU koormus, mida tavaliselt hostingud ei näita, kuid mille ületamine on tihti peamine põhjus konto termineerimiseks või sundimiseks minna privaatserverile.

“During this preview period, applications are limited to 500MB of storage, 200M megacycles of CPU per day, and 10GB bandwidth per day. We expect most applications will be able to serve around 5 million pageviews per month. In the future, these limited quotas will remain free, and developers will be able to purchase additional resources as needed.”

Aga nagu öeldud on tegemist preview-releasiga, mis tähendab, et registreerujate arv on limiteeritud ja limiit on juba täis. Küll aga võib registreeruda waitinglisti.