Is there such a thing for Django as there is Heroku for Ruby on Rails

Question

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

Answer 1

Heroku itself is now for Django. It supports Django with the new Cedar "run anything" release.

I now use Heroku for a few django projects. Setup, including adding a postgres DB and deployment is straight-forward, fast, and free or cheap for small projects. I use and recommend AWS S3 (via django-storages) to host static & uploaded files, and running gunicorn if you're using Heroku in production, all of which is pretty simple to setup. Heroku's own documentation for its support for python & django is pretty good. See:

http://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/django

it was sufficient for me, and should get you there and beyond.