Today, I spent a few hours migrating my site back to one of my SliceHost servers. The appEngine just wasn't doing it for me. The biggest problem was storage limitations in regards to the size of files you could store. The AppEngine only allows 1mb files to be stored which is sadly stored on the database itself. Limitations like that meant that I could not host my own photo gallery and I missed not having my own gallery! Using Picasa would have been the alternative but, at the time, I didn't feel motivated enough to implement that. The nice thing about Django is that it automatically comes with a fairly straightforward administrative tool whereas the AppEngine makes you somewhat responsible for writing your own administrative tools.
Disqus comments rock! Previously, I was relying on Django comments. After that I tried a custom comments system that I made but was getting way too much spam so I decided to completely axe comments altogether. About a year or so ago I discovered Disqus but I never got around to actually implementing their comment system. 5 minutes was literally all it took to install and I was up and running. The only thing I have left is to customise the look and feel of the comment system. Though, at some point, I may try to use their new API to have a more tightly integrated comment system.
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