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 < russ...@keith-magee.com> wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 10:06 AM, Curtis Maloney < > cur...@acommoncreative.com> 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 django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com. > 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 django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
