Definitely Thanks Cal. Hadn't realized that with digitalocean. Been spending my time in ipython and R and plotly and wanted to get some stuff out there.
Rails not really in the equation too much black magic. Saw pythonanywhere, Heroku, Bitnami they just don't have a fixed cost. Eg Bitnami says about $6.95 a month but it's about. I do something random abs could cost myself a bucket. Sayth On Wed, 17 Dec 2014 11:14 AM Cal Leeming <[email protected]> wrote: > One thing to note, DigitalOcean is truly awesome but it is a no-frills > service. You get an API and raw performance at dirt cheap pricing, > everything else you have to handle yourself. > > If you don't have the necessary devops/sysadmin skills, e.g. knowledge of > how to recover crashed databases, corrupt filesystems etc, then you might > want to consider something like Heroku where you can leverage the power of > build packs. This can get *very* expensive, very quickly, but for small > databases and minimal throughput, you'll be fine. > > To be clear, I don't want to put you off using DigitalOcean because I > honestly think they are the best thing to happen to the unmanaged hosting > industry in a long time. At the same time, you should be aware that this > cheap, raw performance comes with a trade off. If you want to push and > forget, use Heroku. But if you want excellent performance, low pricing and > complete control, look at DigitalOcean + Packer + CircleCI. (you can push > to git, which then triggers a CircleCI build, which then triggers a packer > build, which then spins up a new VM at DO on that snapshot. However you > then need to handle destroying old instances, and automating the switch > over between instances, which would need to be some sort of LB or DNS > change over using something like CloudFlare). It gets pretty intense :) > > tl-dr; Deployment of Rails vs Django has the same considerations and > complexities. You'd have to consider the above no matter which you use > anyway. > > As for which would be more preferable, that comes down to personal taste. > My advice would be to review them all, pick two or three, and see which one > excites you the most. > > Hope this helps dude! > > Cal > > On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 12:03 AM, Sayth Renshaw <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Wow never knew mezzanine existed, that's interesting. Yes php hosting is >> cheap, but so is digitalocean and it fully supports python and django. >> >> Sayth >> > >> -- > > >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Django users" 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-users. >> > To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/e2a68abd-1e64-4e28-bedb-3fe8cb2bae62%40googlegroups.com >> . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "Django users" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/django-users/NmnbelIldz8/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, 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-users. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/CAHKQagGsZLaGjJEaSC1StTVPeMdCxW7h%3D5XzNk-pLYRRf2ccFw%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/CAHKQagGsZLaGjJEaSC1StTVPeMdCxW7h%3D5XzNk-pLYRRf2ccFw%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" 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-users. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/CAN2of00-OZLLg7b7NOnexUWoHyw12EvBJEYbXdZmq-ZmmjpHUw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
