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What are the best services to host Django sites?

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F(x) Data Cloud vs PythonAnywhere vs DigitalOcean

 vs AWS Elastic Beanstalk vs Aldryn Cloud

Specs

Server locations

United States

ISOs

Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, CentOS, OpenSUSE, Windows

Virtualization

KVM

Block Storage

Yes

Cloud Storage

Yes

Uptime SLA

99.95%

IPv6

-

Custom ISO

-

Server locations

-

ISOs

-

Virtualization

-

Block Storage

-

Cloud Storage

-

Uptime SLA

-

IPv6

-

Custom ISO

-

Server locations

New York (3); Amsterdam (2); San Francisco (2); Singapore; London; Frankfurt; Toronto; Bangalore

ISOs

Ubuntu; Fedora; Debian; CentOS; CoreOS; FreeBSD

Virtualization

KVM

Block Storage

Yes

Cloud Storage

-

Uptime SLA

-

IPv6

Yes

Custom ISO

Yes

Server locations

-

ISOs

-

Virtualization

-

Block Storage

-

Cloud Storage

-

Uptime SLA

-

IPv6

-

Custom ISO

-

Server locations

-

ISOs

-

Virtualization

-

Block Storage

-

Cloud Storage

-

Uptime SLA

-

IPv6

-

Custom ISO

-

Pros + Cons

Pro
 Scalable

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 Easy to setup

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 Cheap and reliable

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 Very reliable

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Pro
 Easy setup

It's literally a matter of minutes to get a Python-backed website up and running.
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 Free option

You can run a website at USERNAME.pythonanywhere.com for free, and it's good enough for a light-traffic website -- it runs 24/7. You get a free MySQL or SQLite database too.
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 Not too expensive

A basic site with no custom domain is free. $5 a month will afford the user enough power for a typical 100,000 hit a day website.
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 Easy scaling

You pay for a number of "Workers" for your web app (to handle requests), or CPU seconds for code that you run outside a web app, and you can get more workers or CPU seconds by upgrading your plan any time.
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 Excellent customer service

Really fast turnaround, friendly.
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 Flexible payments

You can pay monthly and cancel any time, or pay for a year up front to get a discount.
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Con
 Python-only on the server side

Obviously you can put JavaScript in your web pages and so on, but you can't use Rails or Node.
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Con
 No WebSocket support

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Pro
 Pay-as-you-go with multiple payment options

Billing is done per hour. Each month has a 672 hour (28-day) billing cap with server runtime past that point being free of charge. DigitalOcean accepts payments via Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover, and PayPal.
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Pro
 Competetive starter-level pricing

With pricing that starts at $5/month. It's a pretty cheap VPS provider.
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Pro
 Manages application versions 

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 Highly customizable environment 

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Pro
 Multi environment support 

They support environments and promoting releases from one environment to the other (e.g. qa -> production).
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Pro
 Very cheap

Depending on your load, AWS Elastic Beanstalk is most likely the cheapest option for Node hosting. This is due to you only paying for the underlying AWS services.
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Con
 Customization is not as straightforward as it could be 

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 Deploying could be simplified  

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Con
 Only for django CMS websites

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Pro
 Designed with real-time collaboration in mind and to help increase work productivity

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 Production-ready and out-of-the-box solution

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 Fully scalable cloud hosting

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 Best option on the market for django CMS websites

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