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Posted by tomasvukasovic
tomasvukasovic
24,022 Points

Heroku and Django or VPS and Django?

Hello Guys!

Well I need some advice, I am working with a client and I am developing a website in Django (It is for a real state agency, they have to see the property its characteristics and the images) And I wanted to know where to deploy it, I read about heroku but it seems expensive and I don't fully understand the whole Dyno stuff, also If i go with heroku where should I host the images and the DB, heroku handles it? Or it would be better to go with a VPS such as Digital Ocean? Im reaching to all of you out there Kenneth Love Andrew Chalkley Dave McFarland Huston Hedinger Sorry for tagging you all but I honestly didn't know who to ask

1 Answer

Andrew Chalkley
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Andrew Chalkley
Treehouse Guest Teacher
Andrew Chalkley
Andrew Chalkley
Treehouse Guest Teacher

Hi Tomas Vukasovic

Generally you'd host images in a "cloud storage" provider like Amazon S3 (if you're using something like heroku). Heroku can get expensive but it's easy to deploy to.

VPS have low cost and can be more preferment than Heroku but it requires more admin on your side. I have been looking at Dokku as an alternative to Heroku - Dokku is a "Heroku for VPS" but haven't had time to experiment with it.

Hope that helps to get closer to answering your question.

Regards,
Andrew

tomasvukasovic
tomasvukasovic
24,022 Points

Andrew! Thanks I will definitely take a look at Dokku, DigitalOcean seemed like a really good choice by now, as it is cheap and they offer a really good product for just 5 bucks a month. Still I can't fully understand the whole Dynos at heroku and it seems that nobody knows for sure how many you need for your project.

Another unrelated question is there going to be a course on react or another framework besides Angular?