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Google App Engine can't handle demand for Google App Engine

By Jackson West, 12:20 PM on Tue Apr 8 2008, 2,694 views (Edit, to draft, Top, Slurp)

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The sign-in page for Google's new App Engine platform apparently runs on App Engine — and ran out of it's server allocation this morning, triggering the error message above when a tipster tried to sign up.

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