Yes, it's a bad idea. Django 1.7 is unsupported and no longer receives security updates. Please use at least the Django 1.8 series (the latest is 1.8.8 as of now) which is a long-term support release and will receive security updates until April 2018 as described at https://www.djangoproject.com/download/#supported-versions.
I'd be curious to hear under what circumstances using the latest version of Django will cause headaches for hosting. It really shouldn't affect any hosting providers as far as I know. On Saturday, January 2, 2016 at 9:53:23 AM UTC-5, Tahmid Khan wrote: > > Hey guys, I am starting work on a website and I was thinking if starting > with Django 1.7 is a bad idea or not, since 1.9 is out right now. With 1.7, > I feel like hosting will be less of a headache. > -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/django-users. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/5339c8d8-50e5-4cf2-99e5-c78e9c6df7db%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
