When comparing PythonAnywhere vs AWS Elastic Beanstalk, the Slant community recommends PythonAnywhere for most people. In the question“What are the best services to host Django sites?” PythonAnywhere is ranked 2nd while AWS Elastic Beanstalk is ranked 4th. The most important reason people chose PythonAnywhere is:
It's literally a matter of minutes to get a Python-backed website up and running.
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Pros
Pro Easy setup
It's literally a matter of minutes to get a Python-backed website up and running.
Pro 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.
Pro Excellent customer service
Really fast turnaround, friendly.
Pro 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.
Pro Flexible payments
You can pay monthly and cancel any time, or pay for a year up front to get a discount.
Pro 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.
Pro Manages application versions
Pro Highly customizable environment
Pro Multi environment support
They support environments and promoting releases from one environment to the other (e.g. qa -> production).
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.
Cons
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.