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hockey97
March 26th, 2009, 01:54 PM
Hi, I want to know what websites are the best to teach you quickly how to use the google apps engine and how to host your website?

I got a job as a vp of technology and this company uses google hosting services.

The ceo never experienced it and he never told me what server he had until I have to transfer the code I made to update their website. They told me they use google. I then tell him what??? how I never heard of google giving such services.

So I looked around and found the google app engine. I assume this engine is only for programmers cause normally engines are huge amounts of code to do most of the hard-core programming for you and it easy for the programmer to interface your website with their services.

I was looking for where they store the files and where is the database.

The reason I say this is that I am used to the regular system. Where you have a web server and a database like mysql. I am used to like storing the website files in folder on a computer/server. web hosting providers usally have a interface where you can upload new files and delete files.

now from what I see I have to use a complex engine to update a website.

since I do know programming. I assumed the engine is nothing but alot of code that helps programmers use it to allow google serivces to interact with out website or software or web applications.

I never thought a engine can be the interface for the web hosting google provides which seems very complicated then it needs to be.

Does anyone has any experience and know where I can find a tutorial to help me learn how to use google apps qickly to update a website?

sammy_pal
March 26th, 2009, 05:02 PM
Google App Engine allows python based web applications to be run on Google's servers. The best place to learn about GAE is ofcourse http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/gettingstarted (http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/gettingstarted/)
If you are comfortable with Python, then it is going to be a piece of cake for you to write web applications for GAE.
However if you are just interested in hosting a bunch of static HTML, then you can do that quite easily with GAE. See the appropriate section in the getting started guide. The guide is nicely written and should be very easy to follow. Post a reply if you face any problem.