Lies in education [was Re: The "loop and a half"]

[Ben Bacarisse]

Jon Ribbens <jon+usenet at unequivocal.eu> writes:

> On 2017-10-12, Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet at bsb.me.uk> wrote:
>> I see.  If I'm reading this right, the app requests are passed through
>> to another server -- uWSGI.
>
> Yes. It doesn't have to be uWSGI; it could be gunicorn, or you could
> probably use Apache's mod_fcgid. As a last resort you could use CGI,
> which wouldn't involve any long-running processes, which has the
> benefit of not requiring any special support from your host but the
> disadvantage of most likely being very slow indeed.
>
>> How does this typically work on low-cost hosting?  I may be able to set
>> up the ProxyPass locally (i.e. in .htaccess) but I won't be able to
>> write /etc/uwsgi/apps-available/appname.ini.  Maybe there are a locally
>> defined .ini files that uwsgi reads?
>
> You need to choose a host that supports one of the relevant systems
> mentioned above. If you already have a host then it's possible they
> already do, otherwise you may need to choose another.

Ah, thanks.  You've cleared up some of miasma of terms that seems to
surround the various Python-for-the-web options.  I'd like to try it,
but not enough to switch hosting and, probably, spend more money.

-- 
Ben.