Thank you for the link. It makes a clear point: I'm not their demographic. They are going after businesses and not individuals. I still wonder how they compare proce wise vs heroku?
Actually, the majority of Gondor users are individuals, just individuals who want to spend more time developing and less time configuring and running servers. Heroku has a free tier which makes them cheaper for starting out but for various setups, Gondor can be cheaper.
I build flask apps, and I'm currently shopping for a VPS. Leaning towards Linode, even though their security proved to be less than stellar. My aim is to have a platform where I will not be limited to what I can and can't ship in terms of libraries, db's, and the like. Could gondor provide me with such freedom? Or do I have to open up supports tickets in order to ask for a library to be installed and made available? This is how web hosts operate and it is a huge time waster. Rather thanked writiing pip install whatever, I have to wait for someone to do it.
Check out webfaction, their virtualenv support is a _little_ wonky but the python environment is per-app so you don't really need it.
I run half a dozen Django apps for less than $10/mo but they support any WSGI system, postgres or MySQL and their platform also handles your mail & DNS.
If it's pip installable, it should work on Gondor without our intervention. If you need something else installed then, yes, you'd need to put in a support request. That's definitely the trade-off you get with managed hosting.
That is the feature I'm looking for. I did not see that information in the website. If its not there, you should really consider putting it, because having the pip command is really an important fact in the buying decision.
I'm going to check your service out. Thanks for the support.
