I've tried multiple managed hosting and they all have limitations that will eventually go against your expansion needs. The best example I can think of is the fact that in most of these services you cannot compile, and some of python's libraries do require compiling.
I favor Virtual Private Servers and personally prefer DigitalOcean.com. They have a very nice price structure that starts at $5/month and even offer one-click applications, Django 1.8.7 among them. Not only that, their documentation is very complete and they have a tutorial for virtually everything, from configuring your server to securing and hardening its security. I would say DO is also a 'battery included' service when it comes to non managed server (and no, I'm not getting paid by DO!, I'm just a big fan...) HTH! On Sunday, March 26, 2017 at 11:24:13 AM UTC-4, Ed Sutherland wrote: > > I now understand the purpose and worth of Django. What, then, are the > questions I need to ask potential hosts? I'm leaning toward Linode, but > would also like affordable managed hosting. > > > > > > ---- On Sun, 26 Mar 2017 04:16:52 -0400 Lachlan Musicman<dat...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote ---- > > If you take James' answer and expand it a little, take a look at a Python > micro-framework like Pylons http://pylonsproject.org/ > > It's smaller than Django and is a useful tool for a different type of > website. > > For instance take Authentication and Authorization - logins. Not every > site needs one. Django has it by default. If you don't need it, maybe > Pylons is a better fit. > > But be aware - when you have to actually write some code that makes user > accounts and logins happen in Pylons, that's when you will discover that > Django's "batteries included" philosophy really works for some style of > projects. > > cheers > L. > > ------ > The most dangerous phrase in the language is, "We've always done it this > way." > > - Grace Hopper > > On 26 March 2017 at 15:52, James Bennett <ubern...@gmail.com <javascript:> > > wrote: > > Python is a programming language. You can use it to write many types of > programs. For example, you can use it to write web applications (which run > on a web server, respond to HTTP requests, store their data in a database, > render HTML templates for output, etc.). But doing this from scratch would > require you to write many modules of Python code yourself, in order to > handle all the common and necessary parts of a typical web application. > > Django provides those things for you, already written, so that you do not > need to write them yourself. Instead, you can write only the things which > are truly unique to your specific application, and let already-written > modules from Django handle the rest. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to django-users...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > To post to this group, send email to django...@googlegroups.com > <javascript:>. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-users. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/CAL13Cg9n4Mk6W2QEG51yoY5cXn1tQ_N9ORhvv3k7GGCdW2Ob3A%40mail.gmail.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/CAL13Cg9n4Mk6W2QEG51yoY5cXn1tQ_N9ORhvv3k7GGCdW2Ob3A%40mail.gmail.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 users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to django-users...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > To post to this group, send email to django...@googlegroups.com > <javascript:>. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-users. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/CAGBeqiO9QJ9N9%3DCj%2BsEnCsEn%2B02nwindxbzoYaxTY%2BV16vp%2BPQ%40mail.gmail.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/CAGBeqiO9QJ9N9%3DCj%2BsEnCsEn%2B02nwindxbzoYaxTY%2BV16vp%2BPQ%40mail.gmail.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 users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-users. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/f66c4f9f-1344-4a2d-97b1-986359477b73%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
