Django Hosting reviews from Reddit

Summary

We analyzed 228 Reddit reviews across 9 subreddits and 30 posts to rank the best Django Hosting brands recommended by redditors, including communities like r/django, r/Python, r/learnprogramming, r/learnpython, r/programming. Top-rated brands include DigitalOcean (4.1/5), Heroku (3.9/5), PythonAnywhere (3.9/5).

Stats

Reviews228

Subreddits9

Posts30

Brands43

Products13

Top communities

r/django199 r/Python7 r/learnprogramming6 r/learnpython5 r/programming4

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DigitalOcean

4.1

(44)

"Digital Ocean, great support, great prices."

"Worked really well for me!"

"My personal preference is Puppet managed Digital Ocean VPSes. Simple to spawn a new instance if I ever need one, cheap, and easy to use."

"With Digital Ocean you can simply apt-get."

"Digital Ocean is fantastic for a VPS."

"Perhaps you could look at firing up a $5/$10 Digital Ocean server per client project."

"I use DigitalOcean and never had any problems with them. I run a Django App, Flask App and a static blog."

"I also host another project on DO and it's quite new but I can say there latency is significantly better."

"If you want to go the extra, with a platform : Nothing come close to digitalocean, you can hook an Appliku on it and it's hassle free...."

"The digital ocean droplets work very well with appliku."

Heroku

3.9

(34)

"I really feel like Heroku has such good developer experience when it comes to deployments. I was quite surprised the first time I deployed an application and everything worked perfectly."

"Heroku would be my first choice. It's free up to a certain point, easy to setup and run"

"Heroku, Amazon EC2 instance where you do all your own host management"

"Heroku is also very easy to use."

"I use Heroku for my Django site. It's great."

"I use heroku only because its easy, flexible and cheap imo"

"You're looking for Heroku or using Dokku on Digital Ocean."

"Heroku works fine with django"

"Heroku the easiest."

"I’ve had good luck on heroku"

PythonAnywhere

3.9

(32)

"Pythonanywhere has a really easy deployment for django applications, and you can deploy from pycharm too. Personally I'm very satisfied!"

"I've been happy with PythonAnywhere. They just added custom pricing plans which allow for flexibility based on how much you want to spend."

"PythonAnywhere is also often mentioned as a good and cost effective solution to host Django apps."

"Pythonanywhere for backend."

"I use PythonAnywhere free tier or digital ocean 5 USD/month droplet."

"I prefer PythonAnywhere. Because setting it up is easier than Heroku, and I find the pricing to be more intuitive."

"Pythonanywhere is easy to setup. If you're familiar with git, I will also suggest heroku."

"Pythonanywhere is a nuce solution for those who don't know linux."

"I second Python Anywhere."

"I use python anywhere and it's great. I pay 5$ a month for the most basic tier."

Appliku

4.8

(16)

"I recommend the combo of Appliku + the server on Hetzner its a crazy value combination, where you end up having heroku with 4Gb RAM server for around 15$ per month combined."

"+1 for Appliku and Hetzner"

"Appliku is amazing. I've currently got 5 apps on it that Appliku manages and am paying the basic $10/month."

"I use Appliku with Digital Ocean and it's saved me a ton of time and heartache."

"Appliku makes deployment from git uber simple. I have a staging and production configurations that deploy to a low cost VM on Digital ocean."

"+1 for appliku"

"Appliku is honestly the best. I'm a beginner and it was such an easy process."

"+1 for appliku and hetzner"

"I've been a happy Appliku user for some time now, and it's been a game changer for me."

"Appliku+Hetzner and you are set for a long time. $15/month in total and you can deploy as many app as you want."

WebFaction

4.4

(13)

"I second webfaction. Easy Django deployment."

"Webfaction is great."

"I would recommend Webfaction too. They have an easy going setup with good and updated tutorials."

"Shit man, you need Webfaction. $102/yr, 512MB of RAM, tons of disk space & bandwidth, a beautiful hosting admin realm."

"After going through WebFaction's basic Django set-up tutorial last week I had my app working almost instantly."

"I've been extremely happy with WebFaction so far."

"Webfaction was really simple and cost effective."

"I've used WebFaction, and it worked out beautifully. I have been with WebFaction for years, but hadn't used them for Django until recently."

"I deployed to WebFaction recently, and it went off without a hitch."

"I have one $10/mo WebFaction account hosting about 12 low-traffic websites."

Linode

3.9

(9)

"$5 bucks/month worth it."

"I would suggest services like Digital Ocean, Linode or AWS."

"I’ve had good luck with Linode as well."

"There's a bonus code from the syntax.fm podcast to get 100 dollars of credit from Linode as well"

"I just followed along and went with Linode as he said. I had a good experience with them."

"Linode - $5/mo"

"I prefer Linode over Digital Ocean, because for the same cost I have double RAM for my instances."

"Linode gives you a credit for signing up still i think. Not exactly free, but it's free for a while if you grab a small $5/month node"

"Check out linode"

Hetzner

3.8

(8)

"Hetzner Is hands down the best option. Try Appliku for deployment, to manage DBs, backups, and clusters if you need."

"Hetzner VPS, both on the same server."

"Hetzner is also worth checking out."

"Hetzner is amazing if European servers aren't an issue for you."

"I have good experience with this hosting providers: Hetzner - 3.11€/month - 2GB RAM, 20GB SSD, 1vCPU"

"Hetzner or Contabo, cheapest VPS available."

"Hetzner"

"Check Hetzner cloud (i.e. cax 11)"

Fly.io

4.0

(7)

"I am not into dev ops and stuff, but I enjoy using fly.io :-)"

"Backend: fly, render, heroku, digital ocean app spaces, python anywhere."

"I've had good experiences with fly.io. They have a generous free tier for hobby apps."

"I’ve been using Fly.io. The free tier is good enough and the $29 plan covers better vms and redundant machines for Postgres and is as fast as running locally."

"Never used it but heard that fly.io is good with django, also cheap and fast"

"Give https://fly.io a look - here's how I'm deploying to It for one of my projects"

"You can use https://fly.io. There's a free tier with full SSL, custom domain and a free database. It's pretty good!"

AWS Lightsail

4.0

(6)

"I love AWS lightsail containers. Easy cheap and with some features to prevent downtime."

"Host backend on a Lightsail VPS."

"I've just set up an AWS Lightsail with Ubuntu, 3 months free (after that is $5), pretty easy and fast"

"AWS Lightsail *does* give you your own VM starting at $3.50 a month."

"AWS Lightsail - $3.50/mo"

#10

AWS

3.8

(6)

"Use aws free tier it's free for t2 micro instance"

"I would suggest services like Digital Ocean, Linode or AWS."

"Appruner on AWS is working well for us. Heroku is also an option"

"If your long term goal is to get hired as a developer then I highly reccomend hosting on AWS."

"For anything more complex (and if you want industry-standard experience), go with AWS. chances are, that will also be free for your first year but is significantly more complicated."

"Get a cheap VPS from AWS or anywhere else. Deploy with gunicorn."

#11

Render

3.8

(4)

"Currently using render.com for my Django rest api, Postgres db, and Nextjs frontend. Only like $25 a month for the cheap tiers if your traffic isn’t too high. Very happy so far."

"I personally use render.com for my small project."

"Here's a guide on getting started on Render with Django if you're interested."

"Render.com"

#12

Vercel

3.8

(4)

"Vercel offer a free tier including Postgres you can use for dev"

"Try Vercel it has a good free option that might complete you needs."

"Just dev? You can use vercel, easy to setup and offers a cool cicd experience."

"Vercel.com"

#13

Railway

4.7

(3)

"I recommend railway.app. As long as your usage is less than 5 usd. You basically use it for free."

"Go for railway. Easiest way to deploy. Not sure why many sleep on it."

"I use railway (5$ free credit/month)"

#14

Azure

4.3

(3)

"We host our Django app on an Azure Web App and the front end (React) on a Static Web App. The service reliability is excellent."

"We run advaise.app on Azure: 3 Web Apps Dev/Qa/Prod for the backend server (Django)... Once you scale it's cheaper than Heroku."

"If you expose APIs, I would suggest Azure Functions."

#15

OVH

4.0

3.0

3.0

(1)

"If you *must* use AWS and you want something that's Heroku-like, it's probably the simplest option AWS has."

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