[Tutor] building a website with python

[James Reynolds]

As far as hosts, I use digital ocean. It's a cloud based thing like EC2,
but it's cheap (5/10/20 and up). You will of course have to configure
everything yourself, but that's not such a bad thing.

It will give you good experience configuring a linux box as well and
learning about deployment.

Since I'm a django developer, I'm going to suggest you learn that of
course. But, there are others out there. However, with Django you get the
Django eco system, which is large and very helpful.

For example, you can use fabric for easy deployment, south for database
migrations, celery for task management and so and so forth.

Even simple websites could find some use in south and fabric.


On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 6:06 PM, Walter Prins <wprins at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Benjamin,
>
> On 9 April 2013 22:31, Benjamin Fishbein <bfishbein79 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello. I learned Python this past year (with help from many of you) and
>> wrote many programs for my small business. Now I want to build a website. I
>> acquired the domain name through godaddy.com (bookchicken.com) but have
>> not found hosting yet.
>> I learned html, css, and javascript via codeacademy.org, but have never
>> built a website.
>> I would like to build it with Python, and was wondering if you could give
>> me some pointers about what I need to learn first: Django is the thing to
>> use? And do I need specific hosting to use python or are all hosts
>> basically the same.
>>
>
> Django is good but arguably big and a bit intimidating if you're starting
> out.  There are many alternatives, from so called "micro" frameworks like
> "bottle" (which is implemented in a single Python file) to CherryPy to
> Flask.  Personally, I'd suggest having a look at Web2Py.  It's not quite as
> heavy as Django but very capable nonetheless.  It also deploys easily,
> including to Google App Engine and elsewhere, and includes a very capable
> Admin interface that also includes a basic IDE, thus allowing you to tweak
> the site right from within the site should you have the need. Here's a nice
> little presentation about Web2Py:
> http://www.slideshare.net/blackthorne/web2pyweb-development-like-a-boss
> ... and a tutorial to get you going:
> http://killer-web-development.com/section/1/0
>
> Not all web hosts are the same -- you need to ensure you have Python
> available with the host you use.  There are dedicated Python hosts out
> there.  (PythonAnywhere comes to mind.)  As a slightly different
> possibility, you might consider running your own virtual host in the cloud.
>  You would need to learn a bit about administering a server box, but this
> route does give you the ultimate control over your website and environment.
>  Here's a link to Rackspace with which I've had good experiences thus far
> for your review:
> http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/servers/
>
> Walter
>
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