[Python-africa] Good Python hosting?

[Chavoux Luyt]

Thanks Ibrahim, I'll have a look.

I do not really know a lot about South African web hosting providers. I
found one that was reasonable for my purpose about 10 years ago and just
stayed with them ever since. I currently pay R99/month at
registerdomain.co.za . For all I know, there might be better and cheaper
ones out there by now.
Cheers,
Chavoux
On Jul 25, 2016 4:08 AM, "Ibrahim DIOP" <diopib at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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