I had a related post on this a while back (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1436719), but I have a Django app (http://www.trendero.com/home) that I'd like to move to a cloud hosting service. It's currently hosted with RackSpace, which is great but hundreds of dollars a month, and its traffic is such that I think it would be far cheaper (well under $100/month) on a cloud service.<p>I dig App Engine but am told that switching there would require a substantial rework of the Django models. I'm not a developer, so I'll need either (i) help (my offer of free legal work for help, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1436719, still stands!) or (ii) another option.<p>Do you have a favorite cloud hosting service for Django apps? Any thoughts re: costs, switching, etc?<p>Thanks!
Hey. That USED to be the case that app engine required substantial rework. However there are now no-sql libraries to make normal Django work. I also think there was a summer of code project that might add no-sql support to the django core eventually.<p>You should search around stackoverflow.com or hit up the #django on freenode IRC. My advice is you need to look into how the django community is deploying to app engine more closely.<p>edit: Dug through my bookmarks, this is what you need:
<a href="http://www.allbuttonspressed.com/projects/djangoappengine" rel="nofollow">http://www.allbuttonspressed.com/projects/djangoappengine</a><p>If you still need assistance email me at dhllndr [at] gmail