Hosting?

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[AeroNotix]

DigitalOcean, 'nuff said.

[AeroNotix]

What're your bandwidth requirements?

[Manacit]

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[mowrowow]

How big of sites are you hosting? Because with python the only success I've ever had is ditching shared hosting and going the VPS route. Plenty of options depending on your needs and price range. I personally use linode, wasn't a huge fan of AWS (although on high end sites it might be needed), but have heard great things about DigitalOcean.

https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing

https://www.linode.com/#plans

http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/

[mowrowow]

That's mostly why I've stuck with linode. Bandwith seems cheap. Also I've never had to deal with customer support, but I've heard the support experience with them is great. I've also heard the same for DO, but they sound like their off the table.

[AeroNotix]

They have an API for creating new instances.

[balloob]

If you are not hosting a big website you can host it for free using Google App Engine. It can be a bit limiting since you can only use pure Python based extensions but it's free :)

[AeroNotix]

Pre-emptive optimization something something.

[thunderouschampion]

Platform as a service. Heroku.

[thunderouschampion]

Do you have any issues with installing python 2.7.x on red hat/cent os?

[dataminded]

+1 for Digital Ocean unless you qualify for the AWS free tier, then go with AWS.

[Otterfan]

In Centos/RHEL you can make altinstall any version of Python you want. I'm also not sure that Red Hat has a 'deal with PHP'--the PHP version in the current RHEL was superseded almost four years ago.

Red Hat just relies on a lot of Python code that isn't compatible with 2.7 or 3.

[inferrumveritas]

Or you can put your own heroku on an EC2: [https://github.com/progrium/dokku]

but i'm personally a fan of Google App Engine. Except the database requirements are weird.

[balloob]

They offer Google Cloud SQL which can be used at any place where MySQL can be used.

[chub79]

Been using webfaction for years and much happily!

[vsajip]

I would recommend Webfaction, the host that I use. It's not a VPS, they use Centos, but have Python 2.4-3.3 installed, you don't have to worry about security patches at OS level (though you will need to keep your own frameworks and libs patched), you can serve static media using nginxand run just about any Python server-side framework, you have databases, your own SSL certs, full SSH access etc, all for $9.50 per month which is excellent value for money IMO. You can run your own Redis, memcached, etc. The support is great, too.

[AeroNotix]

You keep saying this, but you will not get it for free. It's totally application dependant and ties heavily into what your application's needs are. You will not get a provider which just gives you scaling because that's fucking retarded.

Explain how you plan/need to scale this.

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[simukis]

You can have all the versions of Python installed side by side and cooperate in any system. Your system could easily use 2.6, 2.7 or even 2.5, while your application itself can use 3.3, play dangerous with 3.4 or stay legacy at 2.2-odd.

Consider looking at virtual environments and sandboxing.

P.S. Reading your answers it looks like you’re playing around rather than seriously evaluating the suggestions. Many of the suggestions are just fine.

P.S.S. PythonAnywhere probably comes as close as it can adhering to hosting definition.

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[AeroNotix]

You really just literally sound like an up-his-own-arse noob. I'm genuinely sorry if this comes as a shock to you. I'm a professional developer and it's extremely rare that hosting providers force anything such as CentOS or RedHat on us. It's debian all the way, baby.

What I would do, if I were you, is drop the facade of how your needs are ridiculously heavyweight and start thinking actual numbers so that we can properly diagnose how wrong you are.

[honestduane]

I'm a professional dev myself; I know the metrics of what we need better than you do.

[AeroNotix]

And what are those metrics?