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Is there a cloud based development for Django, such as there is cloud based development and hosting environment for Ruby / heroku

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google app engine might do what you want - take a look at it here http://code.google.com/appengine/articles/django.html

stephenmurdoch
Except that it is not 'strictly' Django
sebpiq
@sebpiq: the full Django stack runs on GAE.
Rafe Kettler
Really ??? Even all the things in 'contrib' ? 'auth' ? 'admin' ? 'db.models.Model' ?
sebpiq
App Engine doesn't support the full Django ORM experience yet. There are projects that try to make most of the ORM work (e.g. http://www.allbuttonspressed.com/projects/djangoappengine) but you still have to consider the limitations of App Engine's data store (e.g. no joins). There is a recent development that may bring the full Django experience to App Engine, though: http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers/browse_thread/thread/eee872b03286075e#
piquadrat
-1. I had a little disappointment with using GAE. Yes it is super easy to use, super fast to deploy, free, etc, etc ... But I had a whole working website in Django, and I had to refactor lots of stuff to have it working with gae... just cause I couldn't find any other free hosting. So 2 -1, because it is certainly not so easy as heroku.
sebpiq
@sebpiq: what did you expect from free hosting?
Rafe Kettler
@Rafe Kettler: Same as heroku :)
sebpiq
A: 

Media Temple has Django grid containers starting at $20/month.

Daniel
+2  A: 

Djangy seems to be similar. I used neither, so I can't say how similar they are. Djangy only supports MySQL as a database, which is kind of a deal breaker for me.

piquadrat
Django seems great! But read on their site theyre still on private beta.
Sam S