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Deploying Django on Heroku

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Re: Deploying Django on Heroku

#11

Post by CoffeeDregs »

Question: is this a hack to get some Python on Heroku or is it a valuable potential Django server? When I did Rails work, I loved Heroku. Now that I do Django work, I love ... well ... my own server. I'm sure I should check out the various like-Heroku-but-Django services out there, but I'm used to Heroku. Valuable? Or move along nothing to see here?

Note: I see maaku's note about runserver, but I can hope can't I?

Note 2: as this comment lingers, can anyone recommend a living, non-invite-only Django hosting service?

Re: Deploying Django on Heroku

#12

Post by MostAwesomeDude »

CoffeeDregs wrote: post #11

Question: is this a hack to get some Python on Heroku or is it a valuable potential Django server? When I did Rails work, I loved Heroku. Now that I do Django work, I love ... well ... my own server. I'm sure I should check out the various like-Heroku-but-Django services out there, but I'm used to Heroku. Valuable? Or move along nothing to see here? Note: I see maaku's note about runserver, but I can hope can't I? No…

It's not a hack. Heroku's Cedar stack supports Python applications, first-class.

Re: Deploying Django on Heroku

#13

Post by CoffeeDregs »

MostAwesomeDude wrote: post #12
CoffeeDregs wrote: post #11

Question: is this a hack to get some Python on Heroku or is it a valuable potential Django server? When I did Rails work, I loved Heroku. Now that I do Django work, I love ... well ... my own server. I'm sure I should check out the various like-Heroku-but-Django services out there, but I'm used to Heroku. Valuable? Or move along nothing to see here? Note: I see maaku's note about runserver, but I can hope can't I? No…

It's not a hack. Heroku's Cedar stack supports Python applications, first-class.

Python and/or Django aren't listed anywhere here: http://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/cedar

Suggests that Python/Django aren't so much first-class as incidental...

Re: Deploying Django on Heroku

#14

Post by abhiomkar »

maaku wrote: post #4

This is running via runserver, right? Don't use this for production. There are some nice pure-Python web servers though. To someone who knows more about Heroku's stack, if I replace “manage.py runserver” with, say, CherryPy, would there be any Heroku-specific performance issues to consider?

gunicorn server will work, this makes it production ready.

Please replace runserver line with the below line in your Procfile

    web: bin/gunicorn_django --workers=4 --bind=0.0.0.0:$PORT django_project/settings.py

Re: Deploying Django on Heroku

#15

Post by abhiomkar »

CoffeeDregs wrote: post #11

Question: is this a hack to get some Python on Heroku or is it a valuable potential Django server? When I did Rails work, I loved Heroku. Now that I do Django work, I love ... well ... my own server. I'm sure I should check out the various like-Heroku-but-Django services out there, but I'm used to Heroku. Valuable? Or move along nothing to see here? Note: I see maaku's note about runserver, but I can hope can't I? No…

python apps are not officially supported by Heroku, Looks like python app support is added for Facebook Apps to run on Heroku? (http://www.heroku.com/facebook)

However, heroku.com says "Run Anything" :)

Re: Deploying Django on Heroku

#18

Post by paltman »

CoffeeDregs wrote: post #11

Question: is this a hack to get some Python on Heroku or is it a valuable potential Django server? When I did Rails work, I loved Heroku. Now that I do Django work, I love ... well ... my own server. I'm sure I should check out the various like-Heroku-but-Django services out there, but I'm used to Heroku. Valuable? Or move along nothing to see here? Note: I see maaku's note about runserver, but I can hope can't I? No…

Gondor (https://gondor.io) now has open sign up.

Re: Deploying Django on Heroku

#19

Post by niels »

CoffeeDregs wrote: post #11

Question: is this a hack to get some Python on Heroku or is it a valuable potential Django server? When I did Rails work, I loved Heroku. Now that I do Django work, I love ... well ... my own server. I'm sure I should check out the various like-Heroku-but-Django services out there, but I'm used to Heroku. Valuable? Or move along nothing to see here? Note: I see maaku's note about runserver, but I can hope can't I? No…

I've used a couple of the django-heroku clones, Djangy, Gondor and Ep.io. Djangy is no more. Gondor is nice but lacking critical features (background jobs, caching... etc.), and generally seems like a sideshow to their consulting business. ep.io is ahead in features and quality so far. I have not tried DjangoZoom, as I was a little bit annoyed that they required me to pay for beeing in their beta test program.

Re: Deploying Django on Heroku

#20

Post by jtauber »

niels wrote: post #19
CoffeeDregs wrote: post #11

Question: is this a hack to get some Python on Heroku or is it a valuable potential Django server? When I did Rails work, I loved Heroku. Now that I do Django work, I love ... well ... my own server. I'm sure I should check out the various like-Heroku-but-Django services out there, but I'm used to Heroku. Valuable? Or move along nothing to see here? Note: I see maaku's note about runserver, but I can hope can't I? No…

I've used a couple of the django-heroku clones, Djangy, Gondor and Ep.io. Djangy is no more. Gondor is nice but lacking critical features (background jobs, caching... etc.), and generally seems like a sideshow to their consulting business. ep.io is ahead in features and quality so far. I have not tried DjangoZoom, as I was a little bit annoyed that they required me to pay for beeing in their beta test program.

Gondor has caching (has for a while) and background jobs will be available this week. Gondor is not a sideshow to the consulting; if anything, it's the other way around :-)
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