Is there a place for new Django specialized hosting?

[Martin Tiršel]

Hello,

I am playing with an idea to create a hosting service specialized for
Django. I would be glad if you can provide some feedback if you would use
such service (or why not) and what monthly fee would you pay for this.

This would be based on virtual servers without root access (only
unprivileged shell access) with web based administration:

* create so many webs you want (or resources allows)
* separated webserver for media files/static content
* virtualenv support, multiple python versions
* SVN/Git
* testing/production environment (clone production data to testing
environment [app, media, database] -> export project from svn/git -> apply
migrations -> test -> apply to production)
* one click trac installation
* integrated web based editor for some quick changes/fixes
(http://ace.ajax.org/)
* backup/restore
* some tools that makes life easier like one click project initialization
inside svn/git and prepared settings (so you don't need to create project,
add it to repository and rewrite common settings), ...
* basic support for Django
* easy SSL certificate installation
* and many others :)

There could be two programs, for example 1GB RAM, 2 vCPU's, 30 GB HDD or
2GB RAM, 3 vCPU's, 50GB HDD

My goal is to provide an environment for developers with multiple projects
that wants virtual server but don't want/know to install/configure such
virtual server. Or is there already a service like this?

Thanks,
Martin

[Andre Terra]

Forgive me if I sound pessimistic, I'm just a hobbyist developer offering my most sincere 2 cents.

There are many services that offer similar features and sometimes even more. From a business perspective, the only way to thrive in this market is by having technology that provides competitive advantage and through marketing aimed at receiving endorsement from trendsetters in the web development field.

Google ep.io, gondor, apphosted, djangozoom, heroku, cloudfoundry.com (built by a former Google/Microsoft engineer) and others.

Considering these have already launched or at least reached beta stage, you're off to a tough start if you do go through with the plan.

Cheers,
AT

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[shacker]

Agreed - hosting of any kind is a tough business these days - it's become so commoditized that prices are rock bottom and customer expectations extremely high. And there are tons of Django-optimized hosts out there already - search for "django hosting" for listings and comparative sites before even thinking of taking on a niche like this.

./s

[Mario Gudelj]

None of those hosts AT mentioned are cheap (those that actually work) and many of them are either in Beta or don't work. If you can do $10/month hosting for a low traffic site and then charge more once the site starts using a certain amount of bandwidth I think you have a business there. 

On 23 March 2012 01:52, shacker <sha...@birdhouse.org> wrote:

Agreed - hosting of any kind is a tough business these days - it's become so commoditized that prices are rock bottom and customer expectations extremely high. And there are tons of Django-optimized hosts out there already - search for "django hosting" for listings and comparative sites before even thinking of taking on a niche like this.

./s

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