I dont know if at all i make any sense, but this popped up in my mind. Can we use the 2gb free hosting of dropbox to put our django app over there and do some hacks to run our app?
No, it's not possible.
If you want to use dropbox as the hosting, you can put static pages, meaning just the html files with CSS and javascript because those files can be retrieved by doing a simple GET request.
Hosting a python code is not possible as it requires server side calculations & dropbox is just for saving files.
See the official wiki for the available hosts. https://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/DjangoFriendlyWebHosts
The point you need to understand is: can you run django without djagno installed? Can django be installed on a usb-drive? Dropbox is but a cloud storage service NOT cloud hosting service. To store you do not require RAM and processors while for hosting you do.
Hence the answer is NO. If you are okay with configuring apache etc. you can go for VPS. If not try some managed servers. If you dont want to spend much and are looking at free hosting solutions for django a few of them are:
kodingen.com
shellmix.com
http://0x2a-dc.com/index.php?name=shop&cat=6
http://www.heliohost.org/home/
http://bitnami.org/cloud
https://www.alwaysdata.com/
more data:
http://freedjangohosting.com/
http://djangohosting.com/
https://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/DjangoFriendlyWebHosts
Yes its possible! PythonAnywhere.com offers that!
What pythonanywhere does is pretty simple. They integrate your dropbox account with their one. When you want to create a Django app, all you got to do is, direct the platform to store the app in your dropbox folder!
Now, you can open your Django app in your PC and edit it (wait for some time to sync)..restart the app, it works! I practically tried.
Tip: There are many cloud platforms which offer great services for free. Openshift, Heroku, Google App Engine are to name a few!
No, you can't use DropBox to serve a Django Website, as doing so requires Python code to be run, when DropBox is only for saving & serving files.
You can, however, find free hosting for your Django needs, among which:
Heroku, originally meant for Ruby hosting, but now allows you to do Python hosting. I didn't find it particularly easy to use with Django though.
ep.io, Python-specific hosting, but invite-only for the moment - it's possible to get an invite by sending an email, explaining your project & your needs though. Offers you free SSL on *.ep.io, which is pretty nice, and they've got great service.
Dotcloud, not platform specific, but my personal favorite. It's pretty easy to get started, and the CLI allows you to do a lot (but the downside is that you need it a lot too). If you're not afraid of CLI, it's great.
Being said its not possible from dropbox to do that you can use very simple cloud hosting as told ahead,
I might be late for answer but you can get free cloud hosting from Linux Fedora company called RedHat. Their cloud product is available for free which supports django hosting. I tried it my own
Openshift Free Cloud Hosting
In addition to what Thomas posted, some other options for free django hosting:
Amazon Compute Instance (free for one year, free sign up).
Google App Engine (free limits,django howto).
OpenShift (django howto).
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I'm considering a suggestion to buy a Synology NAS server DiskStation DS720+:
https://www.synology.com/de-de/products/DS720+#specs
to run my python scripts or deploy web apps.
I am currently using heroku free account to deploy a web app.
I can't explain, why my web app delivers wrong output on heroku but works completely fine on my local computer.
No error message when deploying on heroku, eventhough the output is wrong.
Since I know nothing about NAS server, I want to ask if following tasks are possible with the diskstation:
Deploying Python Script and Web App (with Dash and Plotly as backbone)
Hosting dynamic website, not static website (like github pages)
Please pardon me, if these are silly questions, since this area is new for me.
The idea that these are possible and that I have my own cloud server is quite tempting.
Is there a better and more economical option for these purpose?
Thank you in advance for any inputs. Best regards, Gunardi Ali
The model you linked supports Docker, so that would probably be the easiest way to host dynamic websites such as Plotly dashboards.
However, if your apps are not generating the desired output when you run them on a machine other than your local computer then running them on a NAS might not work, either.
EDIT: Rereading your question, I would not suggest buying a Synology NAS if your primary use case is a web server. They are trimmed down for ease of use, but they come with their own set of limitations.
Depending on how resource intensive your applications are you might want to look at an Intel NUC or even a Raspberry Pi. If you plan to use the Synology's other features (file sharing, multi media, …) however, they are a great product.
I am developing a Django app to run on every client computer separately. The question is, which technologies should I use to distribute such as docker, virtual machine etc.? How can I protect the Django app's code? How can I prevent to distribute without licenses?
I suggest you look into Heroku. They have a free plan too so you can test it without having to pay first. Their guide with django after you set up an app is good too. You will find everything in their documentation but if you get stuck, I recommend this video by Corey Schafer. Good luck
Edit: Heroku also supports Docker but I'm not too familiar with it. Might be useful to you
I'm relatively new to web development, but I have a couple years experience working with python, so I figured I would build my first production site using django.
I've spent the last few days learning the basics and building a test site running on my local machine. Today, I've been trying to deploy my site to production; however, I've hit a pretty large stumbling block.
The django documentation suggests using mod_wsgi for apache deployments. I followed the install instructions here, only to realize that I don't have access to make any changes to apache - I'm currently on a shared hosting plan.
Apparently, to perform the install, I would have to upgrade to a VPS plan, which costs a lot more.
Any advice for a new web developer trying to get a proof-of-concept web app together (preferably with feedback gathered from real users) on a budget?
I think I have two options:
Eat the cost on my current web hosting plan. Try to find a cheaper host that specializes in django hosting. I've been looking at the following (suggestions here would be wonderful):
Heroku
DigitalOcean
A2Hosting
Try some sort of manual deployment. Is this possible or has anybody ever made this work? I can't seem to find any resources about this.
I was able to install django on my web server and my site just seems like a collection of files at this point. Can I simply move this directory tree to my site using an ftp? And handle the database migration manually?
Can I just run django on my web server via ssh instead of from my local machine? Essentially just rebuild my site in production? I know this isn't a smart idea with a normal production site, but as a proof of concept, I don't mind some downtime if my code is buggy.
Thanks!
If you are just starting Heroku is probably perfect for you. It's super easy to set up, you don't have to handle the server configuration yourself and it has a free tier to do some tests until you are ready to go.
If you are OK with doing some more advanced server/service configuration, you can use Google Cloud, Azure or AWS. This last one has a one year free tier. If you go this route, I suggest using gunicorn/uwsgi + nginx instead of Apache mod_wsgi.
So I am quite the beginner in the world of web development. I have been working on a django application, and now that my application is running pretty well I am staring into the face of the monster that is deployment, and wondering which direction to take.
My application is running Django 1.7 and Python 3.4. I want to use PostgreSQL with Postgis as my database. I was originally thinking of using Amazon AWS for deployment, using their Elastic Beanstalk PaaS service, although now I am wondering if something like Heroku may be better for me as a beginner to all of this. I need my application to scale easily, without me having to dive into too much configuration that I am very likely to mess up.
What I am wondering is which service would be best for a newcomer developer deploying an application running the platforms I mentioned above. Heroku seems like it is a bit easier to use than AWS, but I am concerned that the pricing with Heroku would ramp up more quickly than with AWS. How difficult would it be to initially deploy using one service and migrate to another as I become more familiar with the process of maintaining web applications and/or as my needs change?
Any recommendations or info to help me decide on a service to go with would be very much appreciated.
Can I plug the company I work for, PythonAnywhere? Making Python application deployment easy is pretty much what we're there for :-)
Postgres support (including PosGIS) is currently in beta, but is pretty solid -- if you sign up, just drop us a line and we can enable it for your account.
Deploying Django service using postgres at AWS is as easy as you use local server, AWS is easy and good to use, you just need to confgiure confuguration file of Postgres and server you install at AWS. go to this https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-and-configure-django-with-postgres-nginx-and-gunicorn if you are using Apache.
In order to redeploy a GAE application, I currently have to install the GAE deployment tools on the system that I am using for deployment. While this process is relatively straight forward, the deployment process is a manual process that does not work from behind a firewall and the deployment tools must be installed on every machine that will be used for updating GAE apps. A more ideal solution would be if I could update a GAE application from another GAE application that I have deployed previously. This would remove the need to have multiple systems configured to deploy apps.
Since the GAE deployment tools are written in Python and the GAE App Engine supports Python, is it possible to modify appcfg.py to work from within GAE? The use case would be to pull a project from GitHub or some other online repository and update one GAE application from another GAE app. If this is not possible, what is the limiting constraint?
Is it possible? Yes. The protocol appcfg uses to update apps is entirely HTTP-based, so there's absolutely no reason you couldn't write an app that's capable of deploying other apps (or redeploying itself - self-modifying code)! You may even be able to reuse large parts of appcfg.py to do it.
Is it easy? Probably not. It's quite likely you'll need to understand a decent chunk of appcfg's internals, and the RPCs it uses to upload new apps - not a trivial undertaking. You'll also need to store your credentials in the app, in all likelihood - though you can use a role account that is and admin only for the apps it's deploying to minimize risk there.
One limiting constraint could be the protocol that the python sdk uses to communicate with the GAE servers. If it only uses HTTP, you might be OK. but if it's anything else, you might be out of luck because you can't open a socket directly from within GAE.
What problem did you have by trying to update behind a firewall?
I've got some, but finally I manage to work around them.
About your question, the constraint is that you cannot write files into a GAE app, so even though you could possibly pull from the VCS you can't write those pulled files.
So you would have to update from outside the GAE in first place.
Anyway every machine that needs to update the GAE should have the SDK anyway just to see if they changes work.
So, If you really want to do this you have two alternatives:
Host your own "updater" site and istall the SDK there, then when you want to update log into your side ( or run a script ) and do the remote update.
Although I don't know Amazon EC2 well, I think you can do pretty much the same thing as op 1 from there.
Finally I think the password to update has to be typed always. ( you could have the SDK of the App engine and modify that, because it is open source )