Gondor.io Django hosting is now publicly available

It's too bad there's not a development plan available. I have quite a bit of AppEngine projects I'd be interested in porting over, but not if 100 requests/day + 500kb SQL (what I would use during the port) would cost me $20/month.

Gondor looks fantastic. I love the fact that PaaS is picking up and there is more competition. It is such a fantastic idea.<p>We have been hosting on DotCloud for our django apps and are extremely happy with it. The fact that we can scale up on demand is great. We can add any number of instances by using a simple push command. On top of that the support that DotCloud provides is superb.<p>All the best to Gondor and DotCloud, I think the pie is big enough for both of them.

This news was posted yesterday: <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2955740" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2955740</a>

This team of people is ridiculously good. They probably wrote half of the Django packages you use.

Anybody know how well this compares to ep.io? As far as I can tell, ep.io is pretty similar, only Epio targets more frameworks than just Django. For better or for worse.

As a small anecdote, before I purchased a VPS I applied to all of the Django-only hosts and visited each one's IRC channel. Gondor was the only one that actually let me try the beta and they were also the only one that had a human on IRC at the time to help with any problems.

Is it conceivable that a service like this could be distilled into Fabric scripts to be run against any hosting provider? I could do without the auto scaling since it would be easy enough to issue the command manually when needed.

Good work Gondor team! It is nice to see another quick deploy service launched. It looks the pricing is a little cheaper than Heroku as well, should be an interesting alternative.

Anyone have any experience with using Gondor versus e.g. Linode?<p>If I'm reading it right, Gondor costs more than twice as much. But that might be worth it to get a server set up very nicely and good Django-specific support.

Good timing. Will probably attract tons of scared App Engine orphans.

I'm afraid to use Gondor. I'm not sure how solid they are yet, whereas Heroku runs Django apps just fine and is definitely here to stay.

Is there support for WSGI applications in general, like Flask apps?

I'd be scared of the Tolkien estate.