The Royal Household of UK has chosen Google because the hosting supplier for Prince William’s official wedding ceremony web site. The positioning, accessible at officialroyalwedding2011.org, comprises information updates, picture galleries and movies and all the things is hosted on Google App Engine.
What’s new right here? Internet builders have lengthy used Google App Engine to host internet apps within the cloud – see Sleeping Time and Tall Tweets for instance – however that is in all probability the primary time that Google’s infrastructure is getting used to host a ‘static web site’ of an occasion that may get loads of press consideration and internet site visitors within the coming days.
There are fairly a couple of benefits with internet hosting web sites on Google App Engine. First, it must be extra dependable since your web site will get served by means of Google’s personal information facilities.
Second, you probably have a low site visitors web site, it’s extremely possible that you just gained’t should spend a penny for hosting. You get 1 GB of free cupboard space for internet hosting your photos, HTML internet pages and different recordsdata and 1 GB of bandwidth per day. In the event you exceed that quota, you pay-per-use much like Amazon S3.
Prepared to leap?
With an everyday hosting firm, you rend some cupboard space on their server, you then switch your HTML and different recordsdata to that server utilizing FTP or cPanel and your web site is able to serve. Google App Engine works in comparable method besides that the file switch mechanism is a bit totally different.
Step 1: Go to appengine.google.com and create a brand new utility. When you’ve got by no means used App Engine earlier than, you may be requested to confirm your cell phone quantity earlier than you may create a brand new app.
Step 2: Give your utility a reputation – it must be distinctive and will solely embody lowercase alphabets and digits. For this instance, our app identifier is “thisismyawesomewebsite”.
Step 3: The subsequent two sub-steps could scare a few of you however belief me, they merely require you obtain and run two installers within the given sequence.
3a. Obtain and set up Python from python.org. 3b. Obtain and set up App Engine SDK from this code.google.com.
Step 4: Obtain and unzip this file – web site.zip – someplace in your desktop. It comprises a primary web site with some HTML pages, photos and CSS that we’ll attempt to host with Google App Engine.
Step 5: Open the app.yaml file with notepad and change the phrase ‘labnol’ with the applying identifier that you just created in Step 2 above. Save the adjustments.
Step 6: Lastly it’s time to deploy /add our web site to Google App Engine. Open the Google App Engine Launcher program from the Begin Menu, select File – > Add Present Software and browse to the folder the place you unzipped the web site.
Hit the deploy button, enter your Google Account credentials and inside seconds, your web site ought to change into accessible on-line at abc.appspot.com the place abc is your distinctive app identifier. Later, in the event you add or modify any internet web page, press Deploy once more and your new /edited recordsdata will get uploaded to App Engine.
Your web site shall be hosted as a sub-domain of appspot.com however you may register an online area with Google Apps and map the App Engine web site to your personal area.
