[Python-africa] Good Python hosting?

[Ibrahim DIOP]

Hello Chavoux,

I use webfaction <https://www.webfaction.com/> for all my current needs on
python based webapp hosting.
It has Django (and a few other frameworks) support. You can automatically
setup your app (framework, database, version management etc.), you just
have to add your code. They have an affordable basic plan and it's scalable.
If, for some reason you're considering configuring your own server, you can
still give digital ocean <https://www.digitalocean.com/> a try.

If you're still debating on which framework to use, have a look at Django
<https://www.djangoproject.com/>, it has a variant called GeoDjango
<https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.9/ref/contrib/gis/> with GIS support.
There is also an python web framework (mentionned earlier on the list --
made in S.A) called Rheal <http://www.reahl.org/>. I don't think it has GIS
support but you can surely make it GIS friendly with a few python modules.
And it look promising!

Now I'm a bit curious about S.A web hosting providers. Which one do you
use? could you tell us a bit about them? Anybody else on the list has some
info about some Africa based web hosting providers?

Have fun,
-Ibrahim

Le dim. 24 juil. 2016 à 13:22, Chavoux Luyt <chavoux at gmail.com> a écrit :

> Hi Pythonistas,
>
> I am not sure if this is the right mailing list to ask... most talk so far
> have been about python meetups and conferences.
>
> I am in the process of writing a Python web application for a research
> project (i.e. no income and little money). I am based in Namibia, but
> currently hosting my own web site with a reasonably priced South African
> web host. But it is only static web pages. Do you have any advice on good
> cheap server hosts that runs python or a python framework of some kind?
>
> I have no experience in Python web application. I have done some web
> application development in C# .NET and asp.NET on Windows. But I would like
> a Python web framework with easy connectivity to at least potgreSQL and
> that preferably use CSS for its "look and feel"part (the generated html
> should have enough DIV and SPAN classes to make it easy to change the look
> and feel with CSS). The little bit of Python programming I have done so far
> have only been simple command-line programs/scripts.
>
> What I would like:
> 1. Python hosting obviously, preferably on Linux.
> 2. A GIS web server, using the same database as the database as the Python
> web application. .. I was thinking of qGIS and/or GRASS using postGIS.
> 3. A database back-end, ACID compliant... I was thinking of PostgreSQL,
> since it has postGIS, meaning that I can have a single database for my GIS
> data and the Python web application.
> 4. Preferably running a whole Python web framework.
>
> The other option would be to buy and set up my own Linux Python web
> server. But that is a lot of work, and I am not sure it will be any cheaper
> than a hosting option?
>
> Thanks,
> Chavoux
>
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