Google App Engine turns 2

Apart from being the tipping point - nudging me to start out on my own with its liberal free quotas, I should also thank Google App Engine for not supporting Java during the initial release and thus exposing me to Python.<p>Coming from corporate Java and RDBMS world, the non-RDBMS datastore (BigTable), Python and having to scale while being more resource conscious, have all been pleasant experiences.

As you begin your 3rd year, here are a few things I wish for you:<p>1. May you be able to work with your brother, Google Apps, to allow SSL support for custom domains.<p>2. May you be able to lift your 1 MB cap per urlfetch request to at least 10 MB so that your users can write some cool apps using the YouTube API.<p>3. May you inherit some snazzy search skills this year from Google Search, your grand daddy, and allow your users to whip up custom search engines for their apps in the blink of an eye (or the press of a button, rather).<p>Happy Birthday GAE!<p>- All of your 250k users.

I have the feeling this is an old question, but I can't find a specific answer. Is it possible to host a Google App only with your custom domain while disabling the appspot.com URL? I could understand this being a restriction on free accounts, but does it also apply to paying customers?<p>Thanks<p>PS: If not possible, is there a way to redirect your appspot.com URL to your custom URL?

Until they speed up the datastore by a factor of 10 the app engine just isn't a viable platform. They don't even use it internally for that very reason (this is coming from colleagues who work there.)

Yawn.