Heroku also offers free hosting of a sort. The DSF has nowhere near the financial muscle or human resources to provide such a service. There could be an argument to document possible free hosting platforms, but the django project generally avoids advertising any particular company (or third party package for that matter).
On 4 June 2015 at 16:23, Tim Graham <[email protected]> wrote: > PythonAnyware provides free hosting and that's what the Django Girls > tutorial uses: http://tutorial.djangogirls.org/en/deploy/README.html > > I don't think the Django Software Foundation needs to build a service like > that. > > > On Thursday, June 4, 2015 at 11:08:01 AM UTC-4, Markus Amalthea Magnuson > wrote: >> >> Had discussions on an idea during DjangoCon Europe that I thought I'd >> just throw out there on this list as well: >> >> What if the Django project provided free hosting for small projects, so >> that any newcomer who went through the tutorial or similar could actually >> deploy their application somewhere in as few steps as possible, a >> mini-Heroku of sorts. I think it could be of immense value for someone who >> built their first thing to show it to their friends without having to delve >> deep into devops. This could be coupled with easy instructions on how to >> move that application to proper hosting such as Heroku or AWS. >> >> There are so many aspects of this that would have to be solved (how to >> limit, auth, etc.), so this is just testing the idea. What do you think? >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/23d32e1c-d31f-4043-81b9-0338c0298cf8%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/23d32e1c-d31f-4043-81b9-0338c0298cf8%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/CAMwjO1HKMY6NohAjwhrg0tm%2BQErp5Yd7eCtTKbwugJkuZnM-Kw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
