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Ask HN: Looking for a simple web hosting solution

3 points by dataduck ↗ HN
Can anyone recommend a simple hosting solution for a small web service written in Python? Just an instance where I can run gunicorn and point a DNS endpoint at it would be great. I've been using PythonAnywhere up until this point which was perfect, except they don't support socketio which I now need. I'm trying to avoid services with complicated features and configuration like AWS, and I'm avoiding Heroku because I'd have to rewrite a bunch of the code to deal with the fact that they don't let you store persistent files.

Thanks for any suggestions!

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jwxz
Have you tried digitalocean?
dataduck
I'm considering them, but it's not obvious from their sales copy if the service they're providing is simple (upload files; start server from bash), or if they've got some complicated tooling that I'd need to use before anything actually works. They don't have a free trial account to just spin it up and see, so I wanted to be sure.

Would you recommend them?

jwxz
> upload files; start server from bash

That's pretty much it. They give you a server you can do whatever you want with.

The 'droplets' are billed by the hour so you could try it for a few pennies. I don't think you even need to spend any of your own money. I've seen referrals that give you credit for signing up.

> Would you recommend them?

I would. The only thing you should watch out for is not going over your bandwidth limit, which only applies to outbound traffic.

dataduck
Very useful, thanks! I'll put them at the top of my list.
dataduck
Have a droplet running my app now. Thanks again for the recommendation.