I run Mezzanine on variously sized EC2 instances as well as on a RackSpace, nee Slicehost, VPS. A EC2 micro instance is free for the first year, but generally costs less than $10 per month. Digital Ocean, at $5 per month, also worked well for me the very first time. I have used the included Fabric script to build and deploy to the aforementioned with no modification.
The real cost is not the monthly hosting cost, but the development, deployment, and maintenance costs. If you have spent more than an hour working on your deployment, you have cost yourself several months of hosting expenses. ken On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 8:27 PM, Kyle Pennell <[email protected]> wrote: > How much harder is it to use Heroku vs. GAE? > > > On Wednesday, April 10, 2013 4:05:07 PM UTC-5, Nate Aune wrote: >> >> I wanted to let folks on this list know about a new deployment tool that >> I've been working on called django-deployer. >> http://natea.github.io/django-deployer >> >> Here is a short 5 minute video showing how to deploy Mezzanine to Google >> App Engine, with instructions on how to set up your Mezzanine-based project >> on App Engine and Cloud SQL. >> http://appsembler.com/blog/deploy-django-apps-to-google- >> app-engine-with-django-deployer-in-5-minutes/ >> >> django-deployer is essentially a fabric script that automates the >> creation of all the configuration files necessary to deploy your Django app >> to any of the PaaS providers. Currently there is support for Dotcloud, >> Stackato and Google App Engine, but there are plans to add support for >> Heroku, OpenShift and Gondor as well. >> >> When you run the script, django-deployer asks you a series of questions >> about your project and writes the answers out to a deploy.yml file. The >> hope is that in the future, you could stick a deploy.yml file in your >> Github repo, and any of the PaaS providers could consume this yaml file and >> translate it into their specific way of deploying your app. Until then, >> django-deployer is the babelfish that does that translation for you. :) >> >> While the script works mostly as advertised, it's very much still an >> alpha quality piece of software, and I consider it a work-in-progress. If >> you want to try it out, I'd love to get feedback on how it can be improved. >> >> Nate >> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Mezzanine Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Mezzanine Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
