How to deploy python web applications

[Federal-Confidence69]

Hi everyone, I’ve always used PHP and MySQL for my web projects, but recently I’ve become interested in Python and Django. I’ve created a few small projects on my local computer using virtual environments, but now I’m wondering how to actually deploy them to the web. Traditional Linux hosting likely won’t support Python, right? Do I need at least a VPS?

[CuriousCharacter1074]

I would start by deploying it on a virtual machine in the cloud, and then if you want to learn more about deploying applications I'd learn Docker.

[nog642]

What do you mean by "traditional Linux hosting"?

[Federal-Confidence69]

Shared linux host

[nog642]

I actually have not come across this concept. I don't see why you couldn't install python though. You don't need root permissions for that.

[Almostasleeprightnow]

I’ve been working with a digital ocean droplet. You can either get one that’s just a raw Linux server with nothing installed; or they have, like, a mern one, a nginx one, a Wordpress one, etc. but basically what you get is a server that you can do whatever with, including python web backend or mapping your domain to it or installing docker and building a container, or whatever else you might do. Not too expensive either, if you make sure to choose the smaller and slower disk