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> Also, Heroku is missing here - I would use that before Azure or GAE.

Out of curiosity, why? I recently made that comparison and came to the opposite conclusion, but based primarily on price.

GAE's 5million page views/month + 500MB storage for free is an unequaled price point. Basically, it's free until you get real traction.

I am language-agnostic for that particular project.

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I haven't looked at GAE that much, but my main complaints are the language restrictions and the lock-in around developing for their platform. You can take an app written for Heroku and switch it your own hosting pretty easily - I don't think you could do that for GAE (I could be wrong though).

What about appscale? http://code.google.com/p/appscale/

Ah, all true. The app I have in mind won't ever need to be moved, so those constraints are acceptable.

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