My questions are:
- can most everyday vanilla linux web hosts run a django site ?
- can most everyday vanilla linux web hosts run python web scripts?
Depends on your definition of "most everyday vanilla linux web
hosts". :)
The bottom-of-the-barrel hosts will often (but not always) offer
Python CGI. Django "can" run in a CGI (google for "django
cgi"[0]), but it's an unpleasant experience because the entire
Django framework gets reloaded for *every* request.
Doable/tolerable for a private development/family page, but it
will likely flounder under the slightest load.
This is like strapping a jet engine (Django) on a bicycle (CGI).
[1] Doable, but more for the macho-factor of "I got it
working" rather than the practical aspects.
Your lowest-end hosting services won't offer mod_python or WSGI
(either Apache with mod_wsgi, or others like lighttpd with a wsgi
interface) though WSGI is becoming more popular. There are still
some shared-hosting solutions that facilitate using Django[2]
pretty well. They're not super-cheap, but they're affordable.
The canonical catalog of Django-friendly & Django-capable hosting
services can be found at [3]. If you're just starting out with
Django, it might help to pay a bit more for one of the click-n-go
hosts, while others you'll have to do some of the heavy lifting
(installing Django, as well as possibly other components,
assembling your wsgi startup script, etc) yourself.
Hope this helps,
-tkc
[0]
http://www.google.com/search?q=django%20cgi
[1]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFv1Yu-KxZ8
[2]
http://groups.google.com/group/django-users/browse_thread/thread/cfaf8c04f3dfb56e/
[3]
http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/DjangoFriendlyWebHosts
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