Has anyone thought to contact HostGator and see how they would react to Django dropping FastCGI and/or whether they would be willing to support a WSGI option.
Regards, Michael Manfre On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 12:44 AM, Russell Keith-Magee < [email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 10:06 AM, Curtis Maloney < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> As much as I recognise FastCGI is pretty much a dead technology in the >> Python world, for people stuck with cPanel sites like HostGator, it still >> appears to be, pretty much, the only option. >> >> And installing uWSGI there is simply not an option there. >> >> So unless there's a pure python FastCGI -> WSGI library built that >> supports Django, we're just closing the door on this avenue... >> >> [I say this despite my personal loathing of HostGator... :)] >> > > This would be my concern as well. > > I have no love for FastCGI as a platform, but there's a wide range of > hosting providers out there, especially at the cheap end, that don't > provide a WSGI option. > > The right option here may well be to say "Tough Luck" to these people and > and encourage them to move to different hosting providers. However, I don't > want to rush into this decision without considering the effect on the low > end of our user base. > > Yours, > Russ Magee %-) > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django developers" 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. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
