[Chicago] OT: Need a new hosting service

[sheila miguez]

On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 10:13 AM, Skip Montanaro <skip at pobox.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the suggestions.  A number of sites which don't strictly cater
> to flat files were mentioned, e.g. Amazon EC2.  When I was fooling around
> with Django awhile ago I tried Heroku.  I liked being able to push my
> changes and have the website update, but I didn't like that every push
> generated a new virtual domain name.  So, a couple Django/Heroku-specific
> questions:
>

Most likely you can find some tool or scripts out there that will trigger
when you push a change and deploy your app for you, but I use heroku for
the time being because I am lazy.


>
> * I assume there must be a way to get a static name, but still have the
> nice "git push" feature (I know some folks don't like it, but it appeals to
> me)
>

What do you mean by static name? The names of my heroku apps haven't
changed when I've pushed new versions.



> * Is there a Django-based wiki implementation which might fit into this
> scheme (that is, not blow away the raw wiki content if I push out a new
> version of the wiki software itself)?
>

I don't think this would happen. A wiki is probably backed by a database,
and if you are connecting to a database in heroku, it is not going to
automatically blow away your database  when you deploy changes.

I've been learning django and working on a django site, so if you end up
having questions about heroku and django, post here. Maybe I can help. If
not, someone else likely will.



> * How would I estimate cost?  What the heck is a "dyno hour"? I'd really
> hate to get everything set up and then get a bill of $100 for the first
> month.
>

 I haven't been charged yet because I'm using the lowest possible settings
-- this can be annoying if you don't like that your app is going to go to
"sleep". Right now, I don't care. You might, so it depends.


> *Finally, and most important perhaps, is there a place in the Heroku
> universe to ask these sorts of questions?  I can't login right now while
> I'm at work.
>

Yes! https://discussion.heroku.com/ pretty cool.

Finally, if you want a statically generated blog type of thing, there are
tools like pelican or jekyl and such that allow you to write posts in
markdown or whatnot from a repo, and then you can run the equivalent of
make to compile them and push the changes. I've done this with pelican and
have a make file (it generates one for you) that I happen to use to push
changes to a github.io domain. for example, <
https://github.com/codersquid/codersquid.github.io/tree/source>. I meant to
add readme info there to make it instrunctional for people who want to
start a pelican blog hosted on github pages, but haven't spent much time on
it.

-- 
sheila
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