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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Google App Engine

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/AGoogle App Engine is Google Cloud's platform-as-a-service offering. It features pay-per-use pricing and support for a broad array of programming languages.

    $0.05

    Per Hour Per Instance

    WordPress VIP

    Score7.5 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    Wordpress VIP, from a team at Automattic, is enterprise WordPress hosting with customer or digital experience features for enterprises.N/A
    Pricing
    Google App EngineWordPress VIP
    Editions & Modules
    Starting Price
    $0.05
    Per Hour Per Instance
    Max Price
    $0.30
    Per Hour Per Instance
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Google App EngineWordPress VIP
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Google App EngineWordPress VIP
    Considered Both Products
    Google
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    Automattic
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    92%
    Would buy again
    12 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
    22 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    13 Answers
    95%
    Delivers good value for the price
    18 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    92%
    Happy with the feature set
    12 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    22 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    10 Answers
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    16 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    92%
    Implementation went as expected
    12 Answers
    95%
    Implementation went as expected
    18 Answers
    Features
    Google App EngineWordPress VIP
    Platform-as-a-Service
    Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of Google App Engine and WordPress VIP
    Feature
    Google App Engine
    9.5
    32 Ratings
    20% above category average
    WordPress VIP
    -
    Ratings
    Ease of building user interfaces9.018 Ratings00 Ratings
    Scalability10.032 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform management overhead9.032 Ratings00 Ratings
    Workflow engine capability8.024 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform access control10.031 Ratings00 Ratings
    Services-enabled integration10.028 Ratings00 Ratings
    Development environment creation10.029 Ratings00 Ratings
    Development environment replication10.028 Ratings00 Ratings
    Issue monitoring and notification9.028 Ratings00 Ratings
    Issue recovery9.026 Ratings00 Ratings
    Upgrades and platform fixes10.029 Ratings00 Ratings
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Google App Engine and WordPress VIP
    Feature
    Google App Engine
    -
    Ratings
    WordPress VIP
    7.3
    2 Ratings
    12% below category average
    Role-based user permissions00 Ratings7.32 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Google App Engine and WordPress VIP
    Feature
    Google App Engine
    -
    Ratings
    WordPress VIP
    7.3
    2 Ratings
    7% below category average
    API00 Ratings9.12 Ratings
    Internationalization / multi-language00 Ratings5.52 Ratings
    Web Content Creation
    Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Google App Engine and WordPress VIP
    Feature
    Google App Engine
    -
    Ratings
    WordPress VIP
    8.2
    2 Ratings
    4% above category average
    WYSIWYG editor00 Ratings9.11 Ratings
    Code quality / cleanliness00 Ratings7.32 Ratings
    Admin section00 Ratings8.22 Ratings
    Page templates00 Ratings8.21 Ratings
    Mobile optimization / responsive design00 Ratings9.11 Ratings
    Publishing workflow00 Ratings7.32 Ratings
    Web Content Management
    Comparison of Web Content Management features of Google App Engine and WordPress VIP
    Feature
    Google App Engine
    -
    Ratings
    WordPress VIP
    8.0
    2 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Content taxonomy00 Ratings7.31 Ratings
    SEO support00 Ratings7.31 Ratings
    Bulk management00 Ratings7.32 Ratings
    Availability / breadth of extensions00 Ratings9.11 Ratings
    Community / comment management00 Ratings9.12 Ratings
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    Small Businesses
    IBM Cloud Foundry
    Score8.5 out of 10
    Umbraco CMS
    Score7 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    IBM Cloud Private
    Score9.6 out of 10
    Square Online
    Score7.7 out of 10
    Enterprises
    AWS Elastic Beanstalk
    Score8.6 out of 10
    RWS Tridion Sites
    Score9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Google App EngineWordPress VIP
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (36 ratings)
    7.2
    (22 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.3
    (8 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (8 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.4
    (12 ratings)
    8.4
    (21 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Google App EngineWordPress VIP
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Google
    App Engine is such a good resource for our team both internally and externally. You have complete control over your app, how it runs, when it runs, and more while Google handles the back-end, scaling, orchestration, and so on. If you are serving a tool, system, or web page, it's perfect. If you are serving something back-end, like an automation or ETL workflow, you should be a little considerate or careful with how you are structuring that job. For instance, the Standard environment in Google App Engine will present you with a resource limit for your server calls. If your operations are known to take longer than, say, 10 minutes or so, you may be better off moving to the Flexible environment (which may be a little more expensive but certainly a little more powerful and a little less limited) or even moving that workflow to something like Google Compute Engine or another managed service.
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    Automattic
    WordPress VIP really changed the game when it comes to WordPress CMS and Content Management. A one-stop shop for all our client's business needs. We are focusing on Content Management instead of technicalities. The big advantage is the security features covering all recent vulnerabilities that any WordPress developer/user wastes lots of precious time fixing/updating. Performance-wise, WordPress VIP is definitely up there. We’ve been doing lots of optimization work over the last few years. Every client wants to score 100. With WordPress VIP we decreased the time spent on optimization significantly and now feel confident with taking more performance optimisation work than we did before. Lastly, maybe the most important for every business is the support quality. WordPress VIP runs a superb support team with phenomenal knowledge and expertise. Quick to respond and solves issues here and now. It is definitely recommended.
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    Pros
    Google
    • Quick to develop, quick to deploy. You can be up and running on Google App Engine in no time.
    • Flexible. We use Java for some services and Node.js for others.
    • Great security features. We have been consistently impressed with the security and authentication features of Google App Engine.
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    Automattic
    • Keeps us informed of upcoming releases/patches associated with the Wordpress Platform.
    • Introduces us to products/companies/Wordpress plugins as necessary when new business needs arise.
    • Amy and Allie are excellent at managing the relationship; speaking with them on our monthly calls is a pleasure.
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    Cons
    Google
    • There is a slight learning curve to getting used to code on Google App Engine.
    • Google Cloud Datastore is Google's NoSQL database in the cloud that your applications can use. NoSQL databases, by design, cannot give handle complex queries on the data. This means that sometimes you need to think carefully about your data structures - so that you can get the results you need in your code.
    • Setting up billing is a little annoying. It does not seem to save billing information to your account so you can re-use the same information across different Cloud projects. Each project requires you to re-enter all your billing information (if required)
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    Automattic
    • Too many different dashboard formats
    • Everything should have the same look and feel.
    • The admin portal looks different than the user content portal
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Google
    App Engine is a solid choice for deployments to Google Cloud Platform that do not want to move entirely to a Kubernetes-based container architecture using a different Google product. For rapid prototyping of new applications and fairly straightforward web application deployments, we'll continue to leverage the capabilities that App Engine affords us.
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    Automattic
    It's true enterprise ready hosting framework providing unparalleled hosting infrastructure for WordPress. Where an organisation has high load needs, but with stability and scale VIP delivers. It provides complete peace of mind that the hosting, security and scalability are taken care of and organisations can focus on developing out their website strategies
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    Usability
    Google
    I had to revisit the UI after a year of just setting up and forgetting. The UI got some improvements but the amount of navigation we have to go through to setup a new app has increased but also got easier to setup. Gemini now is integrated and make getting answers faster
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    Automattic
    There is documentation for everything you might need.
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    Support Rating
    Google
    Good amount of documentation available for Google App Engine and in general there is large developer community around Google App Engine and other products it interacts with. Lastly, Google support is great in general. No issues so far with them.
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    Automattic
    The people who work for WordPress VIP clearly are passionate about representing the organisation. Therefore when support is required, they do go above and beyond what you may expect in terms of overall support. They take security very seriously, and due to the nature of VIP, it's rarely a concern for the end-user, if at all.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Google
    We were on another much smaller cloud provider and decided to make the switch for several reasons - stability, breadth of services, and security. In reviewing options, GCP provided the best mixtures of meeting our needs while also balancing the overall cost of the service as compared to the other major players in Azure and AWS.
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    Automattic
    Our team manages 4 different brands' websites and before WordPress VIP we were using multiple different hosts including DreamHost and AWS. These were convoluted and didn't offer the enterprise features for our organization that WP VIP was capable of. We also considered Pantheon, but they were not Wordpress-centric enough for the direction we were going.
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    Return on Investment
    Google
    • Effective employee adoption through ease of use.
    • Effective integration to other java based frameworks.
    • Time to market is very quick. Build, test, deploy and use.
    • The GAE Whitelist for java is an important resource to know what works and what does not. So use it. It would also be nice for Google to expand on items that are allowed on GAE platform.
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    Automattic
    • Working as a WordPress VIP gold partner has helped our business grow from 12 staff to 28 staff in 2 years. They have brought many projects to the table that are always the right ones for us and they really understand our goals as a business.
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