Migrate from Goolge Pages to Appengine

Migration without losing any data.

When it comes to Google Pages, will you opt-out or do nothing and wait for your pages to be migrated to sites smoothly? We can wait, but at a cost. Google Sites do not provide equal or more features than Pages do. No custom Javascript; no uploaded HTML; limited layouts, themes. It dose not seem possible to migrate without losing any data. Even the appearance will change. So, where else can we migrate to?

Our choice is Appengine.

Pros:

• Powerful.
• From the same vendor.

Cons:

• Technical skills required

Step by step migration:

1. Download your pages as a zip from Google Pages
2. Create a new appspot handle
3. Download appengine SDK from http://code.google.com/appengine/
4. Create a new project
5. Configure the project
6. Unzip pages into static content directory
7. Test on localhost
8. Deploy to appspot
9. Test with http://<your-handle>.appspot.com/
10. (Optional) Bind your domain

The long waited automatical migration from Pages to Sites is still not done! Is Google waiting for everyone to opt-out? The magic is a rumor.

Option 1 - Do nothing, and your pages will automatically be moved to Google Sites

• We'll set up the new site and move your pages for you.
• Visits to your googlepages.com URL will redirect to your new site.
• Note that Google Sites does not support custom JavaScript or CSS in its pages.

Option 2 - Opt out of the move, and take your pages to a new location

• Download your site.
• Once you've moved your site to its new location, opt out of migration by setting up a redirect below.

Let's wait and see.