Should I Migrate to GAE?

I’ve known about the Google App Engine (GAE) since it’s launch, have lauded it’s ambition and the service, but never did investigate much into it. I have been quite “at home” with PHP/MySQL and WordPress, and thus, there wasn’t much motivation to look into a python based service.

However, a recent web project with a friend that was written in python, has piqued my interest in python and correspondingly, in the service. Reading more about GAE, I can see much appeal in using the platform, especially its scalability and controlled environment.

Should I jump over and blog there? I do like the WordPress environment, and have gotten used to it after 5 years.

However, in retrospect, the fact that I have gotten too used to the WP environment may make it an ideal time to switch to another platform. Getting too used to a single platform may cloud my judgments in projects. Moreover, with my impending entrance to a University’s computing course, I should start expanding my language (programming) proficiency and this would be a good time to do so.

There are some problems though:

1. A lack of a de-facto blogging webapp in the Python environment a la WordPress (PHP).
   • It is starting to look like I have to code from scratch… Maybe not from scratch due to the availability of Django Framework. This does have benefits as I can learn Python, the GAE environment, as well as control what I need.
2. What about my old posts? Should I bring it all over? Should I leave it an importing it to WordPress.com?
   • Importing to WordPress.com would be easier as it is the same platform. However, this means that I have to notify users or map links to WordPress.com as well
   • Importing content would be great but alot of work to do. Moreover, I have to take into account WordPress’ Permalinks.

I’ll have to decide soon. If not I’ll have no time to work on it once course starts.

For now, I can only assure that I would continue updating my plugins.