Question

I’m going to build a website using OSQA which is built on Django (a famous framework of Python). I’ll host this site to Google App Engine (GAE). I wonder if GAE has support all features of OSQA.?

I’m also new to web admin, so I don’t know that I could use my own domain name (e.g abc.com) to point to my site hosted on GAE?

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I’m going to build a website using OSQA which is built on Django (a famous framework of Python). I’ll host this site to Google App Engine (GAE). I wonder if GAE has support all features of OSQA.?

At GAE you don’t have support for relational databases (unless you are a beta-tester for CloudSQL). That means no admin, which is 90% of Django’s sex-appeal.

Django-nonrel adds NoSQL database support to the ORM. This enables admin on GAE, but it is not fully compatible (Django-nonrel is almost Django but it is not 100% Django). Throw OSQA at it and see if it sticks – if so, you are probably good to go with GAE.

Other Django friendly PaaS worth a look:

• Heroku
• Gondor
• AppHosted
• Epio

For my Django projects I like Linode VPS, but I used to work as Linux sysadmin before being a full-time developer – I’ll give you my root account when you take it from my cold, dead hands :-). Jokes apart, I would wait CloudSQL before using GAE for Django stuff.

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I’m also new to web admin, so I don’t know that I could use my own domain name (e.g abc.com) to point to my site hosted on GAE?

You can’t use your naked domain – abc.com is out, but you can use anything.abc.com. The FAQ suggests setting a redirect, which is easy enough. Note however that you won’t be able to use your domain name with HTTPS at all on GAE – you are constrained to hideous URLs like https://your_app_id.appspot.com.

If you are on GAE, using Google Apps for your domain makes a lot of sense, so you can have Gmail handling email for your domain as well. It is free for 10 email accounts and will handle email for your naked domain ([e-mail]).