Comments on: Django container work underway at (mt)

By: Krishnan R.S.

Krishnan R.S. — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 15:04:27 +0000

Very cool!! I’d be very interested in getting an email once the Django support is in - even if it does cost some $$ - as long as it is not $$$$ !! I’m sick of preaching Django to my existing hosting service.

By: RM

RM — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 05:46:04 +0000

is it django server soup yet??? if not, when will it be ready?

By: Nick

Nick — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 01:14:40 +0000

Still no release date yet? I’m very interested!

By: David Preece

David Preece — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 23:52:30 +0000

Hey, came via the django blog … sounds great! Let me know when you’re live.

By: Terrence

Terrence — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 18:22:20 +0000

Still no news of when the Django container is going to be up?

By: J.R.

J.R. — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 01:49:00 +0000

Perhaps we should get to choose whether we want Django or RoR as our container. I would love to have a Django one, but have no interest in, or use for, a RoR container.

By: Ivan

Ivan — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 16:46:37 +0000

Awesome. I just switch from TextDrive to MediaTemple because the dedicated virtual server’s chroot configuration makes things ridiculously convenient to get Django up and running. You do need to ask to turn things on, like the developer package.

By: Graham Dumpleton

Graham Dumpleton — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 03:02:41 +0000

For an Apache based solution that is more lightweight than using mod_python, maybe you should look at mod_wsgi. Also, a lot of time what people perceive as bloatedness in mod_python is simply because it wasn’t compiled correctly to use Python shared library. That said, mod_python does carry more bloat than it needs to, but mod_wsgi doesn’t and is much more leaner due to being written all in C against the low level Python APIs. Because mod_wsgi has both an embedded mode and a daemon mode, it can also function like fastcgi solutions and delegate WSGI applications off to separate processes, thereby keeping the size of the main Apache child processes down in size.

For more information see http://www.modwsgi.org and commentary on http://blog.dscpl.com.au in respect of current suitability for web hosting companies.

By: Vance Dubberly

Vance Dubberly — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 00:35:55 +0000

Well given that ya’ll have been talking about this for about a year I’m not very hopeful.

By: chl

chl — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 18:57:27 +0000

Ale - the containers will not be ready inside of a month. There’s still too much work to be done on them. However, many customers have installed Django on our (dv) Dedicated-Virtual line of servers and are using it happily if you want to go that route. Good luck with the site!