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Are there any large web sites written with Python/Django? [closed]

Looking at the list of sites created using django, it seems there are no major web sites that are written using the framework. Why is this? Is django not suited to scalable web sites, or is it in ...
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Shared versus VPS versus Cloud?

Short form: I'm trying to decide between shared, VPS, and cloud hosting for a few Django webapps. Long form: I'm currently hosting around half-dozen sites (a mix of Django and PHP) on two ...
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Is there a free Django hosting service out there? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? I would like to put my Django web-site online. Is it possible to do so for free?
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PHP framework suggestions [closed]

I'm going to be creating a site for a business with the following: Single Item purchases with Paypal, Google Checkout and Amazon Checkout Digital Downloads for members from a CDN Forum Voting on ...
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What are some good, cheap hosts that supports Django?

I'm doing a personal web site in Django. It'll be fairly light, and I don't expect many visitors, so I don't need 500gb of bandwidth or 10gb of hard drive which most hosting servers seem to provide as ...
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Migrate from Google App Engine

I'm working with the app engine platform, python 2.5.x and Django, and I'm looking for other solution to host my web app. Can you suggest me blog, or websites who explain how to install a such ...
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Managing pages without CMS?

This question should be quite general, although my interests are in Django. I'm very new to Django. My impression is that most sites don't rely on a CMS, but how are do they manage pages without ...
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Indexing a multilingual website

I am trying to create a multilingual website using the Django framework, all default content is English. I have added a native translation (Dutch). https://mydomain.com/ redirects to the user request ...
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community driven video platform

I am looking for a platform to build a community-driven education video site. We already have quite a few community web-apps runing on python/django, so something based on these technologies would be ...
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Should I work on CSS or apps first?

I am working on my own website for my business, and I need to contract out some assistance. For example, I have the site looking pretty good on Firefox, but it needs help on other browsers. I also ...
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Opening up a static url when using Passenger WSGI with Django?

I'm currently developing a site hosted on dreamhost, using django, which is served up through passenge wsgi. Right now, all requests are being passed to the django app. I'd like to be able to serve ...
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Better to learn with LAMP/Django or more basic building blocks? [closed]

I'm looking to pick up basic web development by working through Programming Python's internet scripting chapters (especially the server-side scripting). Question: when I'm attempting to learn the ...
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Which django based CMS is good for ecommerce sites

I have using joomla for long time and mainly deal with ecommerce sites with shopping cart . Now i am learning python django and realy like the python. But i am used to joomla easiness to use its ...
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Should I use mod_wsgi embedded mode if I have full control of Apache?

I'm managing a bunch of sites and applications in a shared hosting, using Django via mod_wsgi. I had planned to use daemon mode from the beginning (to avoid restart problems), but ended up purchasing ...
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Installing python packages on shared hosting?

I will be hosting a Django application on hostgator.com and was wondering how can I install django apps and python packages without using pip, since I won't have access to the root account.
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How do I install and run django on iPage (a shared webhost)?

I am using an iPage hosted server and I am willing to use django. As per the provider, they support python inside cgi-bin dir. I would like to know how do I install django on a cgi server if that's ...
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Admin: Remove user from group

I was wondering how you can remove a user from a group in the admin. Seems I can add them to a group fine but if you only have one group it seems you can't deselect it?
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Best way to use static HTML + AJAX with Django

I'm working on a web app and decided that for the max amount of speed I'm going to make it a single page. Then load all the content via AJAX pulling the data from a Django app. My options as I see ...
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Planet feed aggregator for django

We are looking for a way to integrate a feed aggregator (like a planet, which takes a set of rss/atom feeds and posts the latest N feed items) into a Django site. Ideally, the planet should integrate ...
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django & postgres linux hosting (with SSH access) recommendations [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? We're looking for a good place to host our custom Django app (a fork of OSQA) and its postgresql backend. ...
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Packaging a web application for deploying at customer site

I want to develop a django webapp that would get deployed at the customer site. The web app would run in a private cloud environment (ESX server here) of the customer. My web app would use a mysql ...
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A WSGI-configured Apache does not serve images from /static or /media (Django), returns 403

I have set up an Apache server with WSGI/Django on it, and everything works fine -- html, css -- but when I try to request an image file, like png, it returns 403 Forbidden. The configuration is as ...
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What type of server is using Django/Python? .htaccess is compatible?

I was wondering what type of server is using python & django because i don't know if can i use an .htaccess file and if there is something similar. Thanks.
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Django or PHP? Which is my Future? [closed]

I started to learn Python. What do you prefer for my future. Should i learn Django or PHP to build sites. Is there a review about Django vs PHP?
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django websites and google [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google? I have recently finished one of my side projects. Now many sites have things like robot.txts ...
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Need a host which supports OSQA [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? Hi i'm looking to install OSQA and see how it goes I have a great niche which I think may work real well, but till I ...
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In practice, what are the key differences between Heroku and webfaction? [closed]

I've been building and hosting webapps, mainly in Django and Flask, for some time now. Mainly, I've been hosting them on Heroku, because of the free tier and the ease of git-enabled application ...
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How to add images based on a counter? [closed]

I would like to create a website that gets external information, and display the count number in number of images. For example: if it gets 10 it will display 10 cups of water. I consider doing it in a ...
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Hosting and scaling a Facebook application in the cloud? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? We would be building a Facebook application in Django (Python), but still not sure of where to host it economically, ...
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Community portal development: Is Liferay developer friendly compared to Django? [closed]

I'm totally new to Liferay portal, and we are about to develop an online portal for a client (a local university). Our client's basic requirements are almost all implemented by default in Liferay, ...
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Alternative to Django Admin pages

I need to write a simple database editor and I like the customizable Admin pages of Django. I still wonder if there is an alternative that would allow me to define my models (or use something like ...
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Django plugable news story application [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? Are there any plugable django blog apps that can be embeded into existing pages or templates. It doesn't have to be a ...
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speeding up django server [closed]

My setup is django 1.3 and the default mod_wsgi and apache packages for ubuntu 10.04. I tested one view of my app on my development VM (DEBUG and debugging toolbar off): ab -n 200 -c 5 ...
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What is the next step up in my IT career? [closed]

I looking to branch up and out of my career, but i don't know what direction to take that is a good match for my skills, and will lead to higher pay. Experience: Dabbled with OpenGL, Java, and C in ...