Take a look at OpenShift by Redhat, they do good work. GAE is another PaaS. GAE is probably a good bet, as they also have a key-value store you can use, which you'll need once your site starts scaling outwards unless you store sessions in the database.
On Monday, June 1, 2015 at 3:54:54 PM UTC-7, Tom Campbell wrote: > > I am building a SaaS business and am not yet able to hire someone to do > the hard stuff (which is everything but the programming). Is there some > kind of managed solution I should be looking at, maybe GAE? > > This message by Lewis > <https://groups.google.com/forum/?utm_source=digest&utm_medium=email#!topic/web2py/JcYrm3FErb4> > > hit home to me because despite 6 months of trying to learn proper > deployment I still get these same kinds of mysterious errors from time to > time and spend way too much time tracking them down. This is not usually > web2py's fault, it's mine, for having so much difficulty learning the ins > and outs of system administration. But I dread the day when I accidentally > do an apt-get upgrade and my site breaks with paying customers waiting for > me to figure out what went wrong. Or when, like Lewis, I'm not even sure > where the problem came from. > > If I could find "the book" on what sysadmin tasks I need to deploy a > production, secure web2py site and keep it safe, I'd be thrilled. > > My needs would be to: > > - Be able to upgrade web2py versions easily but roll back if something > goes wrong (my app is in git, of course) > - Not need to worry about Ubuntu (or Debian, CentOS, whatever) > upgrades killing my site and leaving paying customers in the lurch for a > couple days > - Support multitenant apps > - Keep the price of hosting down to, say, no more than 1/3 of a > full-time sysadmin > > Maybe it's as easy as using Docker? Haven't used it in a real deployment > situation so I don't know. > -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
