Dreamhost might work for you. they have some advanced python options and their dream compute option may be viable for you. On Wed, Jan 25, 2023 at 9:53 AM trent shipley via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > I'm on the bench with my employer asd studying test driven development > using Harry Precival's Test-Driven Development with Python. Percival uses > a simple web site on Django as the practice or example project. In chapter > 9 the baby website gets put on a real hosted web server. It needs to be an > olde fashioned service where you have the freedom to do a lot of admin > work. That is, you need to have enough rope to hang yourself. I also need > a domain name and two sub-domain names. Price is important. I will > probably finish the tutorial book and throw the site away instead of > keeping it as a personal website. > > Has anyone got any suggestions for where to get a domain name and a > hosting service? > > > Trent > > > > > *Choosing Where to Host Our Site* > > There are loads of different solutions out there these days, but they > broadly fall into two camps: > > > - Running your own (possibly virtual) server > - Using a Platform-As-A-Service (PaaS) offering like Heroku, > OpenShift, or PythonAnywhere > > > Particularly for small sites, a PaaS offers a lot of advantages, and I > would definitely recommend looking into them. We’re not going to use a PaaS > in this book however, for several reasons. Firstly, I have a conflict of > interest, in that I think PythonAnywhere is the best, but then again I > would say that because I work there. Secondly, all the PaaS offerings are > quite different, and the procedures to deploy to each vary a lot — learning > about one doesn’t necessarily tell you about the others. Any one of them > might radically change their process or business model by the time you get > to read this book. > > Instead, we’ll learn just a tiny bit of good old-fashioned server admin, > including SSH and web server config. They’re unlikely to ever go away, and > knowing a bit about them will get you some respect from all the grizzled > dinosaurs out there. > > What I have done is to try to set up a server in such a way that’s a bit > like the environment you get from a PaaS, so you should be able to apply > the lessons > > Percival, Harry. Test-Driven Development with Python (pp. 263-264). > O'Reilly Media. Kindle Edition. (2017) > > Or free at: https://www.obeythetestinggoat.com/pages/book.html > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list: PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen