On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 6:08 PM, Eric <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'm preparing to launch my first Pylons project and am starting to > have doubts about launching it on BlueHost, my current provider. Is > there a consensus in the Pylons community as far as which hosting > services to use, or do most Pylons users deploy via private or virtual > servers?
There aren't many cheap webhosts that support Pylons. Generally they are geared toward PHP and aren't interested in hearing about the particular needs of Python/Pylons. You can read the list archives to see the occasional complaints. One issue is memory. Pylons seems to use more memory than you'd expect, so some people have outgrown the limited memory on their cheap webhosts and been stuck with year-long contracts. For comparison, my four apps just fit into 2 GB on startup, but I had to go up to 4GB with heavy use to keep it from swapping excessively. Of course, it depends what kind of database you have and whether you have sizeable lookup tables in memory, etc. My apps currently have a resident size of 60 MB, 24 MB, 87 MB, 38 MB, and 114 MB. The smallest is a quasi-static side using Pylons just to log accesses to a db. (These sizes are reported by 'ps'. Of course, there's a huge controversy over how to calculate memory use on a shared-library system, and 'ps', 'top', and 'free' report significantly different numbers. I don't understand the minutae of this, so I just believe whatever 'ps' or 'top' says.) My sites run on our own servers. My second choice would be a virtual server like linode, or perhaps a cloud server like Amazon EC2. Rackspace has some Python programmers so they may have particular Python support. And of course, there are a few Python-knowledgeable webhosts around who at least know what Pylons is and can give you a definitive answer on how much they support it, but I don't remember their names. I like tummy.com because their network guy (Sean Reifenschneider) volunteers to run the network at PyCon every year, and that's a huge job. -- Mike Orr <[email protected]> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pylons-discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pylons-discuss?hl=en.
