Hosting suggestions

[richzilla]

I am currently looking to replace an existing PHP app, with a new
pyramids one. Unfortunately my current webhost only supports CGI,
which is a less than ideal solution for wsgi applications. My question
is, Is anyone aware of any reasonably priced, managed hosting
solutions for WSGI applications, preferably UK / European based. Ive
looked at going down the VPS route, but my server administration is
basic at best, so i wouldnt feel hugely confident. Any suggestions
would be hugely appreciated,
Cheers

[Chris Withers]

I wonder how an Amazon EC2 instance would compare on cost?

cheers,

Chris

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[Jonathan Ballet]

Hi,

I don't know about your price range nor your administrative skills, but
Webfaction is reasonably priced, has good WSGI support, and they have
some datacenter in Europe (UK I guess) since a few months.

You can have a look at their documentation which explained how to
deploy a WSGI application on their hardware, maybe it will give you an
idea of how difficult for you it is.

Jonathan

[Bruce Wade]

I have used webfaction they like to hike of there prices as you are using the site very fast, we were paying over $50 a month for a simple site. Will never use that company again.

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[Mengu]

you will eventually need to get your hands dirty either this or that
way so i recommend you getting a vps from linode.com. they have
servers in europe. shared hosts are not good at all. you can find
deploying a pyramid application under mod_wsgi doc at
https://docs.pylonsproject.org/projects/pyramid/1.2/tutorials/modwsgi/index.html.

[Doug Latornell]

I have several sites hosted with Webfaction and have been happy with them for 4 or 5 years. My sites are a mixture of static, PHP, and a few Django apps. I've also run some pure WSGI apps without difficulty, though not for longer than a few days (long story). Setting up to run Pyramid shouldn't be difficult - they have docs on how to server Pylons via paster and that would translate directly for Pyramid.

In contrast to Detetedstealth's experience I've been paying $7.50 per month (I pre-pay 24 months at a time). Admittedly, none of my sites have very high traffic, nor do they consume a lot of other resources.

Doug

[Sharil Shafie]

Yep. Vps is the way to go to have a complete freedom at fairly cheap price. 

On 01-Oct-2011 10:48 PM, "Mengu" <whal...@gmail.com> wrote:

you will eventually need to get your hands dirty either this or that
way so i recommend you getting a vps from linode.com. they have
servers in europe. shared hosts are not good at all. you can find
deploying a pyramid application under mod_wsgi doc at
https://docs.pylonsproject.org/projects/pyramid/1.2/tutorials/modwsgi/index.html.

On Sep 29, 12:59 am, richzilla <rich.craw...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I am currently looking to replace ...

[Iain Duncan]

I'm interested in this question too. yes, a VPS is usually preferable, but to be honest, I get some small jobs for whom I simply can not be on the hook for administering a vps. I used webfaction many many years ago when they were having some growth issues, hopefully those are sorted now. I'd like to hear of any other decent ways of deploying wsgi apps on a setup that I feel very comfortable knowing I won't have to *ever* log into again unless the client has started a new contract for extensions. With a vps, if they run out of diskspace or memory or bandwidth or some other thing gets screwed up ( server compromized, whatever) it becomes *my* problem, with webfaction and similar services, it's not my problem, they'll take care of it. That's a better situation for many small jobs and is a valid business decision. 

So any other suggestions for managed shared hosting of wsgi apps where you'd feel good turning it on and knowing it will 'just work' for ever ( or as close as we can reasonably expect)?

thanks

Iain

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