Gilles <nos...@nospam.com> writes: > Do Python hosters provide a VM so that it's just like a remote Linux > server where I'm free to install whatever I want, or do they force > users to use specific versions of Python and specific frameworks eg. > Django?
There are both kinds. The first kind is called a Virtual Private Server (VPS). The second kind is called shared hosting. VPS is very flexible but shared hosting can be cheaper, and easier to use if you have no sysadmin skills. I'm assuming you don't have enough workload to want to rent a physical server (sometimes called a "dedi", short for dedicated server) or colo (colocation, meaning you buy your own hardware and install it in a rack slot that you rent at the data center). OVH (www.ovh.com/fr) is the biggest French hosting place and they have all three types of service, I think. Their low cost branch is www.kimsufi.fr which has extremely attractive prices. I have heard mixed things about them: you get a lot of resources for the money, but that they can be hard to deal with in various ways. So it sounds not great but not terrible. Kimsufi dedis are cheaper than anything comparable that we can get in the USA, so I have been interested in renting one for some of my own stuff, but I haven't pursued this yet. www.webhostingtalk.com and www.lowendbox.com are good places to research this sort of thing. lowendbox.com is specifically for cheap VPS's. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
