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Google Application Engine is a great service for developers. It's free until you exceed generous quota and it uses Python for application development. It can scale to millions of users if your code does not have datastore bottlenecks. You can use framework like Django on top of it but not PHP. Our solution is Python Server Pages which is lightweight framework and works very much like PHP but with embedded Python code. Our future GAE projects will utilize this framework which already has proven itself on our LAMP platform using mod_python. If you need GAE solution then contact us at gae@orderweb.co.za

Our online auctions solution is up and running. The system was developed using open source platform. The server is running Linux with Apache, MySQL, PHP and Python. AJAX Javascript techniques are used to refresh pages and web service calls are handled by Python server pages. Our business model is to charge only for auctions which have verified bids therefore system is free to use if your auction does not get any bids