Python cloud hosting other than Google App Engine? [closed]

Answer 1

Google App Engine is a unique cloud platform and you won't find any other similar hosting. Except maybe hosting your own AppScale platform somewhere : http://code.google.com/p/appscale/ But I don't think it's ready yet.

The closest to GAE would likely be some sort of Heroku-clone for Python. I know of two upcoming services :

• http://www.djangy.com
• http://stable.io

You could also try Media Temple Grid Service which has Django grid containers : http://mediatemple.net/webhosting/gs/features/containers.php#django

Answer 2

You can now use Heroku for Python.

Answer 3

https://www.dotcloud.com/ might also work for your needs

Answer 4

How about : http://www.picloud.com/

Answer 5

You could consider something like AppScale or TyphoonAE:

http://code.google.com/p/appscale/

http://code.google.com/p/typhoonae/

These are independent and open-source implementations of GAE that can be hosted anywhere you want, and that allow you to get around some of the issues with GAE (e.g. the HTTPS issue you mentioned).

Both support GAE/P but AppScale's Python support is a few versions behind.

Answer 6

If you're looking for python website / webservice hosting, there are now (a year on from OP) a couple of beta options that look interesting (these may be in production versions by the time this answer is read!)

http://ep.io (any python hosting) http://gondor.io (django hosting)

these are similar to GAE, but offer traditional back ends - RDBMS (PostGRES).

However picloud and http://www.pythonanywhere.com/ are quite different in that they offer the ability to run and retrieve arbitrary python code in the cloud (no need for an explicit wsgi-built api).