web2py recommended web hosting

[Alejandro]

Hello everyone,

I am new in web2py and I am very impressed by their simplicity and
capabilities.
I would like to know which is the best/recommended web hosting to run
web2py.

Thanks,

Alejandro

[Anthony]

You should be able to host web2py apps just about anywhere you can run Python, including many shared hosts. For VPS/dedicated hosting, I think a common setup is Ubuntu and Apache. See the book for deployment instructions (http://web2py.com/book/default/chapter/11), including pointers to some one-step deployment scripts (http://web2py.com/book/default/chapter/11#One-Step-Production-Deployment).

 

For shared hosting, I've seen strong recommendations for WebFaction (and some for DreamHost as well). For VPS/cloud hosting, I've seen recommendations for VPS.net (I think that's where web2py.com is hosted), Slicehost, DreamHost, Rackspace, Amazon EC2, and a few others. There's also a new cloud service in beta called DotCloud (www.dotcloud.com) -- they have a tutorial for setting up web2py (http://docs.dotcloud.com/static/tutorials/web2py/). There are also several new Python-specific cloud hosts in beta: www.pydra.com, www.apphosted.com, www.ep.io, www.stable.io.

 

Of course, there's also Google App Engine, which web2py can handle very well (http://web2py.com/book/default/chapter/11#Google-App-Engine), though it's got some limitations, which may affect your application design.

 

Anthony

[rochacbruno]

For shared hosts. The best, easiest and with a nice cost is webfaction.com

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I recommend webfaction.
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[Kevin Ivarsen]

I recently had a good experience deploying a web2py website with a VPS
on hostgator.com. During peak periods we had several dozen
simultaneous users hitting the site, and everything remained speedy
and responsive. We used MySQL and Apache with mod_wsgi to deploy.

Kevin

[pbreit]

My only advice is that if you are struggling to get web2py running on your host, don't fight it, switch.

Webfaction comes up a lot as a great provider. If you are at all thinking about cloud, I say "go for it". Amazon, RackSpace and Linode are great options.

[Christopher Steel]

I like Webfaction a lot. Once you get a handle on the Webfaction
vocabulary and setup it is great, before that happens you may find
yourself learning how it all works. In the end this is a good thing
because you will really understand how things are setup if you ever
have an issue, but it the beginning it can be frustrating if you new
to webfaction or developing with web2py or both.


Chris

On Mar 7, 4:12 am, Alejandro <alek...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Plumo]

Unless you need special features I recommend Google App Engine because there is no upfront costs and easy to deploy.

[Yarin]

As of March 2012 GAE supports neither relational DBs nor SSL on custom domains- making it a nonstarter for any production app I can think of.