Where should I host wagtail?(Linode, heroku, other options?)

[Ray Alez]

Hi! I am planning to create websites on wagtail for other people(now for friends, for clients in the future).
Because I am new at this stuff - I'm looking for advice, what is the best hosting for me to choose?
I am already hosting my own website on linode, but I'm wondering if I should be using heroku for clients, to make it easier. Maybe there are better options? What do you guys use?
If I am going to have several websites, what will be the best way for me to manage them all?

[Tom Dyson]

At Torchbox (original creators of Wagtail) we rent servers with Bytemark, who we recommend enthusiastically if your primary audience is in the UK.

For cheap, virtual servers, we like Digital Ocean, but Linode should be fine too. Many of our friends are proponents of Heroku, but we don't know it very well. Wagtail runs on Heroku, but the installation process is less standard.

Depending on traffic, you could run several Wagtail sites on a single small virtual server, but if your clients need SSH access, e.g. to modify their own templates, it will probably be simpler and safer to restrict each client to a single server.

Good luck!

Tom

[Jarret Hardie]

I can vouch for Heroku, which is where I’ve got Wagtail running (with static and media being run off S3).

The deployment process was quite painless, really. The only wrinkle are South migrations, which any Django/South project on Heroku faces… it just requires a bit more elbow grease because of the way Heroku works.

Jarret

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[Ray Alez]

Awesome, thank you guys!!

[Felipe Ryan]

Hey Jarret,

Do you have a write up on how to deploy on Heroku? I'm about to do this and I know I'm going to be scratching my head at the same things you did...

[Tom Dyson]

Hi Felipe

In case it's any help, we've recently added a Heroku install button to
the wagtaildemo repo:

https://github.com/torchbox/wagtaildemo/

Most of the changes are in this PR:

https://github.com/torchbox/wagtaildemo/pull/44/files

Good luck!

Tom

On 8 February 2015 at 04:56, Felipe Ryan <felip...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey Jarret,
>
> Do you have a write up on how to deploy on Heroku? I'm about to do this and
> I know I'm going to be scratching my head at the same things you did...
>
> On Friday, 4 July 2014 00:34:12 UTC+10, Jarret Hardie wrote:
>>
>> I can vouch for Heroku, which is where I've got Wagtail running (with
>> static and media being run off S3).
>>
>> The deployment process was quite painless, really. The only wrinkle are

>> South migrations, which any Django/South project on Heroku faces... it just

> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/wagtail/4405e641-026e-4556-9910-2c1d9088b4bd%40googlegroups.com.

>
> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

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