title: Is Google app engine the best option for commercial web apps?
body: <p>I wrote a little web app with jsp's and have it working on the localhost using tomcat and a mysql database. I want to put it on the web so that I can view it from anywhere and have thought about using my spare laptp to host it (which I have no idea how to do). I started searching around and read a bit about google app engine. I thought maybe I could figure out how to get my project uploaded through that, but I haven't yet. Anyway, from all I read I am starting to wonder if google app engine really is the best answer. I have some other ideas of web apps I want to create and wonder if using google apps is my best option. If I create the next youtube or pandora.com am I going to have problems because I chose to go with Google App Engine? Should I just go the hard way and try to figure out how to get my (now small) web app onto a third party server or something? And if I should then where should I start looking to figure this stuff out?</p>