One of the best things that happened to web2py

[Massimo Di Pierro]

I am happy to announce a great new opportunity for web2py users:

     https://www.pythonanywhere.com/try-web2py

Basically they give you the opportunity to create a web2py instance directly from the browser without sign-up. The instance only lives for 24 hrs unless you sign-up. In that case it will persist.

The basic plan is also free.

This is a great new way to show web2py to your friends and convince them to try it without commitment. It also works great for teaching web2py. 

I encourage you to try it. 

web2py.com is hosted on PythonAnywhere and we are very happy with it.

Massimo

[Martin Weissenboeck]

I have tried it - works fine!

Martin

2013/10/28 Massimo Di Pierro <massimo....@gmail.com>

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[Anthony]

+1

Maybe add a link to this from the web2py.com home page (could add a button to the group of red buttons on the right).

[Massimo Di Pierro]

Yes. I think we should remove the demo_admin with this. No reason to have them both.

[Stefaan Himpe]

> The instance only lives for
> 24 hrs unless you sign-up. In that case it will persist.

Hi,

I tried creating something last week as I saw it announced on the dev
mailing list, and despite not signing up, I now see it still appears to
be alive. Is this expected?

Best regards,
Stefaan.

[Giles Thomas]

On Monday, October 28, 2013 7:24:39 PM UTC, stefaan wrote:

I tried creating something last week as I saw it announced on the dev
mailing list, and despite not signing up, I now see it still appears to
be alive. Is this expected? 

(PythonAnywhere guy here.)

It's more the case that we don't promise that the site will stay up after 24 hours have expired than that we guarantee that it *will* disappear after 24 hours.  It's a manual process to clear down sites from people that decide not to sign up.  Hope that makes sense!

Giles

[Richard Vézina]

This is pretty nice, but since I heard about it the first time, I thought "what a greate ressources for fishing attack for malicious geek"

:)

Richard

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[Anthony]

I think the admin demo is still useful. Creating an installation at pythonanywhere and going to the admin app is still an extra barrier that some won't bother to jump.

[b00m_chef]

I use PA, and am supper happy. I have thought about doing a VPS or Shared Hosting at other places, however, PA is just so well integrated with web2py (or vice-versa?), that it just makes sense to just go with them.

Well done Giles!!

Currently using the free account, but thanks to the great pricing (recently updated), and the great setup, I will be converting to a paid account shortly.

[Neil]

Wow, this is excellent - everything seems to work really well. 

[Mirko]

2.7.4 , great !

[stefaan]

 It's a manual process to clear down sites from people that decide not to sign up.

Ouch... so let's hope not too many people decide to try it out then... (oh wait...! :D)

 

[Giles Thomas]

On Tuesday, October 29, 2013 1:12:12 PM UTC, stefaan wrote:

 It's a manual process to clear down sites from people that decide not to sign up. 

Ouch... so let's hope not too many people decide to try it out then... (oh wait...! :D)

It's not that bad, we just need to run a couple of scripts :-) 

[Scott Hunter]

This looks terrific -- I was able to pack a site I had built locally, load it up to PA, and it ALMOST all worked.

I have uploaded images, whose URLS are all of the form /download/filename, where filename is the name of a file in the uploads folder (which I could verify from PA's dashboard), none of which show up on the site (each got a 400 response code).

Once I forced in the app & controller into the URL (by adding them into the text of the view BEFORE the call to URL()), all was well.  But it felt kind of clumsy.

- Scott

On Monday, October 28, 2013 12:41:35 PM UTC-4, Massimo Di Pierro wrote:

[raferbop]

I moved my web2py development to https://www.pythonanywhere.com about 3 weeks ago, and I must say, its kicks AWS ass because its free! This is the perfect environment for development because you can experiment with different stuff without fearing what your end of month bill will be.