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Host Static Website on Google App Engine But With Flexibility of Templating System

If you already know how to use google app engine you can skip to the github project and the short summary will be enough for you to get started on creating static websites. I created this because google sites will stop supporting google adsense and I have a bunch of static sites for my projects that is using google adsense. https://github.com/faisalraja/app-engine-static If you are new to google app engine and would like a way to create static websites with ability to do stuff like server side includes to avoid duplicating your headers/navigation and everything that you can do with jinja2 templating system and starts your hosting for free with daily quota and competitive pricing, by the time of this writing is (1GB/day free and 12cents/GB after). First you need python 2.7 installed in your system, you can download at: http://python.org/download/ Choose the one for your system, then install google appengine sdk at: https://developers.google.com/appengine/downloads?hl=d