Is there any cheap & easy webhosting available for Python?
Occasionally I get commisioned to build small websites ( < 50 visitors per day) and for that I want to be able to build the site in a day or two.
I don't want the hassle/expense of having to setup and run VPS/AWS infastructure. I just want to give someone a bunch of files and say "sign up for some cheap webhosting, ask them to give you a DB called X and upload these".
I usually end up just doing it in PHP, but it has always felt like a poor reason to choose a language with so many warts.
Replying to Jiggy, but can't directly reply since it's dead:
No, a simple Rails app is not very coupled to Heroku.
The deployment process is simpler and pretty unique to Heroku, but it's usually pretty easy to move away from Heroku or deploy in parallel to another location. I actually deploy one app to Heroku and I have an offsite backup process that deploys the same codebase to a NGINX/Passenger setup and clones the production Heroku data to that instance.
Your mileage will vary, of course. If you start using a bunch of Heroku plugins, you'll find it's harder to maintain an easy dual-deploy setup.
Occasionally I get commisioned to build small websites ( < 50 visitors per day) and for that I want to be able to build the site in a day or two.
I don't want the hassle/expense of having to setup and run VPS/AWS infastructure. I just want to give someone a bunch of files and say "sign up for some cheap webhosting, ask them to give you a DB called X and upload these".
I usually end up just doing it in PHP, but it has always felt like a poor reason to choose a language with so many warts.