Hello Michael, You face the similar problem I did few weeks ago. I also have a webhosting provider (http://www.imhosted.com/)who offered a good webhosting plan and I bought his webhosting plan.Later after I learned how good Django is I also tried to convince him to install the Django.I found out that they did not have mod_python installed, so first I asked him if they would install it.After spending some time to talk with them they decided not to install mod_python, saying that it would not be good for their servers( compatibility and overload issues). I do not know your provider but I think it is a problem ( if you do not have a good provider) to use Django with mod_python because Django doesn't use autoreloading . If your provider make changes into httpd.conf to setup your Django project on their server, I doubt they will be willing to make restarting Apache whenever you upload a new version of your project. I think it is a big problem of Django installation with mod_python. Maybe using fast_CGI would be a better solution but not sure.( I wish Django had an easier installation)
Regards, L.
